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“The League,” a feature-length documentary surrounding Negro Leagues baseball for the first half of the 20th century, will be available on multiple streaming platforms, including Amazon Prime Video ...

Musician and producer Questlove is teaming up with documentarian Sam Pollard to bring the true story of the Negro League to life. “The League” will explore the rise and fall of the Negro League, and ...

Pitcher Satchel Paige (l.) of the Kansas City Monarchs talks with Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays before a game in 1941. Both former Negro Leagues stars and their careers are featured in the new ...

Many baseball fans know a bit about the Negro Leagues’ existence prior to Major League Baseball’s integration–but few know the full history of these thriving, vital leagues. The League, a new ...

“We knew that we could play baseball with anybody. If you’ve got Satchel (Paige) on your team, you could play a team that has got nine devils on it.” The quote comes courtesy of Jimmie Crutchfield in ...

There’s no shortage of great movies about baseball, but there is a severe lack of films about the Negro leagues. The fifth inning of Ken Burns’ expansive “Baseball” covers them with admirable ...

Discover how the Negro Leagues shaped a global game for generations to come. "Never Drop the Ball" takes audiences on an extraordinary journey to show how black baseball players built a brand of ...

Baseball is America’s favorite pastime, and a new documentary opening at The Neon in downtown Dayton showcases the all-star players that built the Negro leagues in segregated America. Film critics at ...

One night of adventure between two artists during an off-season writers retreat in Okoboji has led to a documentary. The Negro Artist first premiered at this year’s Okoboji writers retreat, two years ...

Sometimes we get the movies we want, sometimes we get the ones we need, and once in a great while we get one that we didn’t know we wanted or needed, but that arrives by way of karmic necessity: a ...

The Newark Eagles look on from their dugout in 1936. A decade later, in 1946, the Eagles won their sole Negro World Series championship over the Kansas City Monarchs. Contributed Photo Magnolia ...