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A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation

Name: A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-02-18
Duration: 41 min
Cast: James 'Mudcat' Grant, Grover 'Deacon' Jones, Jimmy Wynn, J.R. Richard, Tony Pérez

Release Date:February 18, 2018

Running Time:41 min

Genres:Documentary

Director

Gaspar González

Cast

James 'Mudcat' Grant Grover 'Deacon' Jones Jimmy Wynn J.R. Richard Tony Pérez Orlando Cepeda Enos Cabell Octavio “Cookie” Rojas Orlando Peña Bobby Tolan

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

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Synopsis

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947, but it took another generation of Black and Latino players to make the sport truly open to all. Playing in remote minor-league towns, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow.

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