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‘MLK/FBI’ Director Sam Pollard Teams With ‘Summer of Soul’ Producers On Negro League Doc ‘The League’

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EXCLUSIVE: Growing up in the 60s, director Sam Pollard lived in a household that loved baseball, specifically the St.

Louis Cardinals. It was that 1961 team that consisted of a large list of African-American players that stood out to Pollard, especially in a time when rosters that looked like this were very scarce across the MLB.

That team would be the beginning of his love affair with baseball and the history of the sport, specifically the Negro League and the impact it would have not only on sports history but American history in the years to come.Fast forward 50 years later and Pollard is set to direct The League, which will tell the tumultuous journey of Negro Baseball League as it thrives and falters in a country plagued by racism as

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