Via YouTube: THE JACKIE ROBINSON STORY (1950) – Full Movie – Captioned: Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in major-league baseball. Covers his college career, his years in the Negro Baseball League, and the racial prejudice he had to face in the major leagues. Stars Jackie Robinson as himself. Public domain …
Category Archive: Players
Nov 05 2012
42: Jackie Robinson Feature Film
Feb 16 2011
Quincy Trouppe: “20 Years Too Soon”
Quincy Trouppe played with, for, against or scouted an astonishing array of legendary players.
Dec 28 2010
The Negro Leagues: African-American Achievers
Dec 28 2010
Buck Leonard: The Black Lou Gehrig : The Hall of Famer’s Story in His Own Words
This is Buck’s story in his own words, tracing his life from his humble beginnings to the present. Not only an eyewitness account of the history of the Negro leagues told by one of the all-time greats, it is also a saga of the black experience, vividly illustrating what it was like to be a black American in the years before our country’s social conscience was awakened.