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Leroy 'Satchel' Paige (autobiography Maybe I'll Pitch Forever)
Ronald Rubin (writer)
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31 May 1981 (USA) more
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Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth... more | add synopsis
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Skip This Movie And Read The Book Instead more (4 total)
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Louis Gossett Jr. | ... | Leroy 'Satchel' Paige |
 | Beverly Todd | ... | Lahoma Brown |
| Cleavon Little | ... | Rabbit |
| Ernie Barnes | ... | Josh Gibson |
 | Clifton Davis | ... | Cool Papa Bell |
 | Hal Williams | ... | Roberts |
| Taylor Lacher | ... | Announcer |
| John Beradino | ... | Jake Wells |
| Jim Davis | ... | Mr. Wilkenson |
 | Ossie Davis | ... | Chuffy Russell |
| Tonea Stewart | ... | Mama Paige (as Tommie Stewart) |
| J.R. Horne | ... | Mr. Andrews |
| Donnie Walker | ... | Sugar Boy Porter |
| Don Blakely | ... | Bartender |
 | Candy Ann Brown | ... | Ramona |
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98 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Continuity: During the "All-Star Game" between the Negro League and the Major League, Josh Gibson (Ernie Barnes) and another player are seen wearing their usual Homestead Grays uniform while at bat instead of the Satchel All Stars uniform their team is wearing. more
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Don't Look Back more
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Boy, here's a classic case of a book being far better than the ensuing movie. Paige's autobiography was entertaining and both informative and humorous.
This film, thanks to a few things like actors who have no clue how to throw or hit a baseball, make the story lose credibility. Lou Gossett, playing Paige, can't throw which kind of hurts since Paige was a pitcher! Duh!! All-time great Negro League hitter Josh Gibson (Ernie Barnes), the "Babe Ruth" of his league, looks like a Little Leaguer with his horrible swing.
Meanwhile, the romance and the prejudice angles are all way out of proportion to Paige's book. Skip this film; read the book. It's far, far better.