Crime of the Big Leagues: Lester Rodney

0.0 2011 11 min
Documentary

We know a lot about how major league baseball was strictly segregated before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. But strangely, few of us know much about the decade-long, fierce, organized efforts to bring…

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Director
Randy Field
Writer
Jack Epstein

Cast

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Lester Rodney Self
Vida Blue Narrator / Voice of Satchel Paige
Marty Lurie Voice of Lester Rodney
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige Self

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