A rigorous, inviting, effortlessly engaging documentary about baseball's Negro leagues, The League is a history lesson for everyone. agracru's review:
, but it probably helps. But despite Pollard’s rigorous scholarship in his subject area,isn’t a dense movie. It’s just painstakingly researched and judiciously constructed. What Pollard pulls from his subjects is ease of storytelling; even at an hour and forty minutes, the film keeps a lively pace, and for all of the work’s academic value, it’s endlessly, almost effortlessly engaging. Pollard didn’t make this movie just for folks with heads for sports stats. He made it for everybody.
He also chooses to frame “success” as multi-dimensional when another filmmaker might have made other facets secondary to profit – which was, after all, part of the Negro leagues’ accomplishments. For Pollard’s film, the leagues’ profitability is remarkable because that profit is so entwined with other markers of success and achievement and cultural vibrancy. Sodutifully minds profit while paying greater attention and homage to people.
Pollard further keenly demonstrates just how much impact baseball had on Black American life from the late 1800s to the 1950s, inviting viewers to wonder what that life might look like in 2023 without the Negro leagues’ advent.
Pollard makes his documentarian articulations through archival footage, animated interstitial segments, and talking head interviews with authorities ranging from Andrea Williams to Bob Kendrick, as well as apparently freshly discovered interviews with the likes of Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil, icons of Black American baseball glory; he uses, the late Bob Motley’s memoir of his days umpiring in the Negro leagues, as the basis for the film’s structure, narrating Motley’s words himself throughout.
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