A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation

Name: A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball's Desegregation
Director: Gaspar González
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-02-18
Duration: 2460 s
Cast: James 'Mudcat' Grant, Grover 'Deacon' Jones, Jimmy Wynn

Directed by Gaspar González

2018 41m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary)

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Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947, but it took another generation of Black and Latino players to make the sport truly open to all. Playing in remote minor-league towns, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow.