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Soul of the Game

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Soul of the Game
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PG13,1hr 34min
Release:
1996
Directors:
Kevin Sullivan, Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
Delroy Lindo, Mykelti Williamson, Blair Underwood  ...more
Synopsis: This original HBO production documents, in dramatic form, the rivalry between Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson to see who would be the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Paige (played by Delroy Lindo) and Gibson (Mykelti Williamson) are more aggressive about seizing the opportunity that arose in the mid-'40s with the death of baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had publicly avowed that the color line in baseball would never be broken. Branch Rickey ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
After a shaky opening, with a reporter interviewing Willie Mays (played by an actor who looks nothing like the "Say Hey Kid") in 1954 as a device for a flashback to the 1940s heyday of the Negro Leagues, Soul of the Game settles into a surprisingly melancholy account of the breaking of baseball's color line. This is not a celebration of Jackie Robinson's immense courage, but a rumination on the cruel ... Full Review
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Delroy Lindo
Satchel Paige
Mykelti Williamson
Josh Gibson
Blair Underwood
Jackie Robinson
Edward Herrmann
Branch Rickey
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