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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Team Marketing EAN: 9780783118161 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0783118163 Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 23, 2001 Running Time: 94 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: April 20, 1996 Sales Rank: 13720 MPN: TM2566
Description: In 1945, the world of baseball was divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. Will Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson or Jackie Robinson be the first to take the field in the Majors?
Amazon.com: An aging Satchel Paige wanted to be the first African American baseball player to integrate the major leagues after World War II. Of course, things didn't work out that way: the visibly dignified and younger Jackie Robinson got the nod, while the Negro Leagues he left behind carried on with such brilliant talents as Josh Gibson segregated from deserving opportunities. This HBO movie concerns the period just before Robinson was pressed into a difficult role breaking the color barrier, and the rich script by David Himmelstein and Gary Hoffman concerns his aspirations as well as those of the frustrated Paige and the deteriorating Gibson. Blair Underwood plays Robinson with an expected nobility, while Delroy Lindo is superb as Paige as is Mykelti Williamson as Gibson. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, the film really does fill a gap in a viewer's imagination about what these three legendary men must have been going through--and much of it is painful to witness. With Edward Herrmann as Branch Rickey. --Tom Keogh
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Rating: - excellent movie allstar performances
the movie was excellent. The all Star line up of actors played their roles to the max. good movie for historical sports fans and for anyone who just wants a good movie
Rating: - A HOMERUN!!
This HBO movie is almost a docudrama. While the facts aren't necessarily historically accurate, the people involved are historical and the overall story happened. It's 1945 and it's time for baseball to ... Read More
Rating: - Very good movie!
Great movie depicting one of the most important times baseball ever went through. Also does a great job showing three of baseball's greatest people to influence the game. The movie sheds some light on what ... Read More
Rating: - Real Baseball History
A great look at Black baseball in the early days before blacks where accepted into the league. It shows how special these players where and how important it was to break the color barrier and make baseball as ... Read More
Rating: - Capturing bitterness
I have been a student of the history of baseball since my father wanted me to read books at the age of seven. I have read about one hundred books about baseball. I have written a novel which includes the early ... Read More
- excellent movie allstar performances
- Real Baseball History