Last week I watched the baseball movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, a flick which came out in 1976. Many baseball movies are a mix of traditional baseball and fantasy (think Field of Dreams or The Natural). Some are loosely based on real-life events, like Bull Durham. Bingo Long would fall into this category. The movie stars three men who were among the biggest stars in cinema: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor.

The fictional plot of the movie is a Negro League pitcher, Bingo Long (played by Williams), loosely based on the life of Satchel Paige, tired of mistreatment by the team’s tyrannical owner, recruits other All-Stars to form their own team and barnstorm the country so that they may control their own destiny. Among his recruits are Jones, w

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