{"id":35233,"date":"2024-02-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35233"},"modified":"2024-02-19T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:15:51","slug":"the-league-2023-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35233","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The League&#8221; (2023) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z022624zview_theleague.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The League <\/strong><\/em>(2023)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Sam Pollard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writers:\u00a0 <strong>Bob Motley, Byron Motley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Hank Aaron, Monte Irvin, Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Maya Angelou<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The League details the birth, rise and demise of the Professional Negro Baseball Leagues and the outstanding players who made it popular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The League<\/em> shows that black players have been playing baseball since it&#8217;s invention.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t until the major leagues wouldn&#8217;t allow players of color to participate that the Negro leagues came to be.\u00a0 Cities that had a Negro League team saw their economies improve.\u00a0 Fans saw a faster paced, more exciting game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The League<\/em> does an amazing job of presenting the social issues and history that brought about the formation of Negro Professional Baseball Leagues.\u00a0 In addition to learning about the stars who played the game we learn about the folks behind the scenes who made the leagues possible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em>The League<\/em> earns my highest recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>The League <\/strong><\/em>(2023) earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z022624zview_theleague2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The League (2023) Director:\u00a0 Sam Pollard Writers:\u00a0 Bob Motley, Byron Motley Stars:\u00a0 Hank Aaron, Monte Irvin, Ernie Banks, Willie Mays,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,72,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35234,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35233\/revisions\/35234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}