The story of Black baseball before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the Major Leagues in 1947 is recounted in a new documentary about the Negro Leagues.
Christy Mathewson rose to greatness as a pitcher for the New York Giants in the early 1900s on the strength of his “fadeaway,” a pitch that would resemble the screwball of later generations.
Those stories, as well as the history of Black players before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the Major Leagues in 1947, are recounted in “The League,” the new documentary about the Negro Leagues directed by Sam Pollard . Byron Motley’s father, Bob Motley, had been a Negro League umpire and Byron had done a tremendous amount of legwork and shot all these interviews with different players like Monte Irvin and Satchel Paige and Willie Mays. He approached me a few years back and knowing what I did about the history, I was excited about telling the story for people of the 21st century who don’t know about these trailblazers like Rube Foster, who started the Negro Leagues.
We can’t tell this story without paying homage to Jackie Robinson – and people don’t know that part of the story. It was a sign of the times and there was no way it was going to go differently. Robinson’s signing was the big thing. Did Branch Rickey pay for Robinson or Roy Campanella or Don Newcombe? He didn’t feel like had to. I was glad we had that story about Effa challenging Rickey and then Veeck giving her money for Doby.
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