incredible baseball movie

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2014)

This was the perfect baseball movie for anyone interested in baseball history and the exploits of one man-the one and only Jackie Robinson. It starts off with the narration of blacks being excluded from Major League Baseball in the first part of the 20th century and having to form the "Negro Leagues" and then switching to Branch Richey looking for one of those players to be the first black player in the Majors. He settles on Robinson-"a player with a future." Robinson agrees and is subjected to horrible treatment (from fellow and opposing players, other people such as customer service people who are also bad to the team in general) prejudice, fans shouting racial epithets at him, and other bad treatments. He endures and eventually wins everyone's respect. It would be interesting to watch this and the original Jackie Robinson Story movie back-to-back (in which Robinson played himself) to see how they compare. I saw that one too and liked it-this one holds its own. Any baseball fan will love this.
*** out of ****