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Jon Leonoudakis

Raceball: On The Inside Corner

  • Documentary
  • History

A poor black kid from the Jim Crow south becomes a star MLB pitcher in the 1960s

RELEASE

2017-01-01

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

38 min

Description

The first African-American to win 20 games in MLB’s American League shares his remarkable and shocking journey overcoming racism and discrimination through the 1950s and ‘60s to become an all-star pitcher who won two games in the 1965 World Series.