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Crime of the Big Leagues CB# 3159

Randy Field

united states | 11min

As virtually everyone knows, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and broke the color ban in baseball. But few Americans know Lester Rodney -- the sports editor of the Daily Worker, New York's Communist Party newspaper, who prepared the ground, repeatedly calling the ban "un-American" and "the Crime of the Big Leagues." . For over ten years, Lester Rodney's columns put unrelenting pressure on baseball's establishment. Who would have thought that a communist writer would become the loudest voice in the fight to desegregate America's national pastime?

director Randy Field
Cast Lester Rodney, Vida Blue, Marty Lurie
Producer Michael Pickman, Randy Field
Saturday Apr. 1 2017 2:45 PM Resorts - Atlantic Ballroom 119min - 8 films Buy ticket

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Crime of the Big Leagues CB# 3159

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