New Documentary The League Celebrates Black Baseball Players In The Early 20th Century

Screen Rant is proud to present an exclusive clip from the ground-breaking documentary, The League, which examines the importance of the Negro Baseball Leagues to the Civil Rights movement. Examining both the great successes and difficult challenges, this documentary explores the rise and fall of the Negro Baseball Leagues in the first half of the twentieth century. Using never-before-seen interviews and newly discovered archival footage, this documentary is able to tell the story from the perspective of all-star players like Satchel Paige, Buck O’Neil, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron, as well as owners including activist Effa Manley and entrepreneurs Cumberland Posey and Gus Greenlee.