The League is a worthy addition to the canon of baseball documentaries with its focus on the history of the Negro Leagues. Tribeca had a trio of baseball movies this year. Two of them were documentaries–both touch on Bill Veeck signing Larry Doby in Cleveland and breaking the AL color barrier. While I easily recommend both documentaries, The League is probably the more important of the two just because of what it brings to the…
"The League – Tribeca 2023"Tag: The League
As the 2023 Tribeca Festival gets underway on June 7, there are a bunch of films that I’m looking forward to seeing during the fest. Rather – Frank Marshall directs this documentary on the longtime news anchor. Dan Rather was a prolific newsman for many years on TV, taking over for CBS Evening News after the departure of Walter Cronkite. At 49 years old, Rather was already a CBS veteran when he replaced Cronkite at…
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