Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story

Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story tells the long-overdue story of the first all-white vs. all-black Little League baseball game in the Deep South. The game took place about eight years after Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947.  The Civil Rights movement had started a year before this playoff game took place.  When you’re a kid and into baseball, that’s all you want to do.  It really doesn’t matter who you’re playing…

"Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story"