Only the ball was white

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1980

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This documentary looks back at the time when major U.S. baseball leagues refused to hire black athletes. Using archival footage, photographs, and interviews with former athletes, narrator Paul Winfield recounts the number of unrecognized athletes denied stardom because of the color line. Among those sharing recollections of life in the Negro leagues are Satchel Paige, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella.

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