Sam Pollard’s “The League” Is Not Your Typical Baseball Doc. The documentary filmmaker grew up in the 1960s watching the St. Louis Cardinals, whose roster of players included Blac…
The documentary filmmaker grew up in the 1960s watching the St. Louis Cardinals, whose roster of players included Black or Latino players including Bill White, Curt Flood, Orlando Cepeda and Lou Brock, but did not know much about the Negro Leagues that existed when the sport was still segregated.
While some segregation in the sport always existed, the color line in baseball was not rigidly enforced until the end of the 19th century. Executive produced by Oscar winning doc director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson , Tariq Trotter , and produced by RadicalMedia, “The League” recounts the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues and the impact that African American baseball had not only on Major League Baseball as we now know it, but also its impact on the social advancement of America.& 2929 Productions, “The League” is a story about not just baseball, but exclusion and self-determination.
We knew we were going to do recreations because initially I thought we weren’t going to have enough archival footage necessary to make happen. So recreations were always on the table. Animation came later. Every film that I approach, I’m always trying to figure out aesthetically and cinematically how to make it different than the one before.
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