The Consequences of Integration in Baseball

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Sam Pollard: "I originally wanted to shoot recreations for five days. ... But then I had to creatively think, can I get it done when I need to get done in three days?" He says the only thing that sort of flummoxed these young African American baseball players was the size of the gloves. Coming up after the break, Sam Pollard talks about the consequences of integration in baseball.

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Then, director Sam Pollard discusses his new doc The League, which pairs his love of baseball with his ongoing examination of Black history, and discusses working with producer Questlove and the “uphill climb” of documentary filmmaking.