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  • Baseball Shadow Ball (Season 1, Episode 5)
  • TV-PG
    TV Episode | 122 min | Documentary, History, Sport

Baseball

Shadow Ball (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 122 min | Documentary, History, Sport

The title refers to a common pre-game feature in which the players staged a mock game with an imaginary ball. Though unintended, the pantomime was an apt metaphor for the exclusion of blacks from major league play at that time.
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Director
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Geoffrey C. Ward (written by) | Ken Burns (written by)
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Status
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Updated Sep 22, 1994

Release date
Sep 22, 1994 (United States)

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63 cast members
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Grover Cleveland Alexander
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Adam Arkin
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Philip Bosco
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Roy Campanella
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John Chancellor
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Mickey Cochrane
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Eddie Collins
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Robert W. Creamer
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Ossie Davis
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Dizzy Dean
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Joe DiMaggio
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Leo Durocher
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Jimmie Foxx
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Lou Gehrig
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Hank Greenberg
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Lefty Grove
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Sammie Haynes
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Babe Herman
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Gregory Hines
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Claire Merritt Hodgson
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Carl Hubbell
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Walter Johnson
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Nap Lajoie
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Kenesaw M. Landis
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Connie Mack
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Amy Madigan
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Joe McCarthy
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Charles McDowell
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John J. McGraw
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Joe 'Ducky' Medwick
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Paul Newman
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Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
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Ted Radcliffe
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Wilbert Robinson
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Paul Roebling
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Babe Ruth
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George Sisler
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Tris Speaker
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Dazzy Vance
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Honus Wagner
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Eli Wallach
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Paul Winfield
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Cy Young
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