Raceball: On The Inside Corner

2017 • Directed by

Jon Leonoudakis

Documentary, History

A poor black kid from the Jim Crow south becomes a star MLB pitcher in the 1960s

The first African-American to win 20 games in MLB’s American League shares his remarkable and shocking journey overcoming racism and discrimination through the 1950s and ‘60s to become an all-star pitcher who won two games in the 1965 World Series.