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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $6.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 20 April, 1996 DVD Release : 23 January, 2001 |
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Soul of the Game description An aging Satchel Paige wanted to be the first African American baseball player to integrate the major leagues after World War II. Of course, things didn't work out that way: the visibly dignified and younger Jackie Robinson got the nod, while the Negro Leagues he left behind carried on with such brilliant talents as Josh Gibson segregated from deserving opportunities. This HBO movie concerns the period just before Robinson was pressed into a difficult role breaking the color barrier, and the rich script by David Himmelstein and Gary Hoffman concerns his aspirations as well as those of the frustrated Paige and the deteriorating Gibson. Blair Underwood plays Robinson with an expected nobility, while Delroy Lindo is superb as Paige as is Mykelti Williamson as Gibson. Directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, the film really does fill a gap in a viewer's imagination about what these three legendary men must have been going through--and much of it is painful to witness. With Edward Herrmann as Branch Rickey. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Capturing bitterness |
| I have been a student of the history of baseball since my father wanted me to read books at the age of seven. I have read about one hundred books about baseball. I have written a novel which includes the early days of baseball.
I have read and watched several books and movies about Jackie Robinson, Sachel Paige, and Josh Gibson. Soul of the Game does in excellent job of capturing the passion, complexity, and bitterness of these three men. Their hostility and anguish for being excluded from the "all white" baseball leagues is most real and vivid. For me, the movie captures the depravity of deep rooted racism and ignorance. At the same time, the movie is very dark, opening doors that most people don't want to look through. |
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