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Soul of the Game
1996 television film directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Soul of the Game (released as Field of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a 1996 television film about Negro league baseball.
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The film stars Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson, Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige, Mykelti Williamson as Josh Gibson, and Harvey Williams as "Cat" Mays, the father of Willie Mays. The film depicts Paige and Gibson as the pitching and hitting stars, respectively, of the Negro leagues in the period immediately following World War II. Robinson is an up-and-coming player on Paige's team, the Kansas City Monarchs.