Here we are living in the era of Jim Crow and segregation, and African Americans are forced to live within their own communities. On the entrepreneurial spirit behind the creation of the Negro League "He brought a bunch of different Black owners together in Kansas City, and they created the Negro National League." " had a very entrepreneurial spirit and he decided he wanted to put together a league of Negro League baseball teams that would be just like Major League Baseball," Pollard says. Rube Foster, a former pitcher-turned-businessman was the "father of Negro League baseball," Pollard explains. "Even though this a horrific period of American apartheid, this was for the people in the Black community an opportunity to really come out and enjoy themselves," Pollard says. He describes the league's games as social events that spawned new businesses and attracted celebrity fans like Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne and Count Basie. Pollard's new documentary, The League, tells the story of the Negro League and the way it revolutionized baseball. Energetic, punchier, aggressive - a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back since they've changed some of the rules." They brought a different kind of style, which was part of that style that was in the Negro Leagues. people like Maury Wills, Willie Mays, Rickey Henderson. "You can see it follow up with other players who came along. "If you watch footage of Jackie Robinson from the '40s and the early '50s, he had a lot of flash and pizzazz," Pollard says. Years later, as the first Black player to play in MLB in the modern era, Jackie Robinson would bring the same energy to a wider audience. While sluggers like Babe Ruth dominated MLB, the Negro League, which was founded in 1920, featured a scrappier, hit-and-run, base-stealing style of play. According to filmmaker Sam Pollard, some of these changes hearken back to an earlier period in baseball history: The Negro National League. This season, the MLB instituted new rules designed to make baseball games shorter and more exciting.
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