The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)

Directors

John Badham

Cast

Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Stan Shaw, Tony Burton

The story

Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter, charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long steals a bunch of Negro league players away from their teams, including catcher and slugger Leon Carter, and Charlie Snow, 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, is so good that they recruit him.

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