Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long steals Tired of being treated like slave by team owner Sallison Potter bunch of Negro League players from teams player, Fact2: Bingo begins to cut into attendance of established Negro League teams, Fact3: Bingo 's Potter is forced to propose winner-take-all game, Fact4: Bingo 's team beat bunch of all-stars, Fact5: players return to old teams
Output (English): Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter Ted Ross, charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long Billy Dee Williams steals a bunch of Negro League players away from their teams, including catcherslugger Leon Carter James Earl Jones and Charlie Snow Richard Pryor, a player forever scheming to break into the segregated Major League Baseball of the 1930s by masquerading as first a Cuban Carlos Nevada, then a Native American Chief Takahoma. They take to the road, barnstorming through small Midwestern towns, playing the local teams to make ends meet. One of the opposing players, Esquire Joe Calloway Stan Shaw, is so good that they recruit him. Bingos team becomes so outlandishly entertaining and successful, it begins to cut into the attendance of the established Negro League teams. Finally, Bingos nemesis Potter is forced to propose a winnertakeall game: if Bingos team can beat a bunch of allstars, it can join the league, but if it loses, the players will return to their old teams. Potter has two of his goons kidnap Leon prior to the game as insurance, but he escapes and is key to his sides victory. As it turns out, there is a major league scout in the audience. After the game, he offers Esquire Joe the chance to break the color barrier; with Bingos blessing, he accepts. Leon glumly foresees the decline of the Negro League as more players follow Esquire Joes lead, but Bingo, ever the optimist, cheers him up by describing the wild promotional stunts he intends to stage to bring in the paying customers.