Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Release: 1981-05-31
·Runtime: 98m
·★ 6.0
Drama
TV Movie
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, to his emergence at age 43 in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians the year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
TBA Productions
Satie Productions Ltd.
TRISEME
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Cleavon Little
as Rabbit Thompson
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Leroy 'Satchel' Paige
Clifton Davis
as Cool Papa Bell
Tonea Stewart
as Mama Paige
Cullen G. Chambers
as Sportswriter (uncredited)
Taylor Lacher
as Announcer
Ossie Davis
as Chuffy Russell
J.R. Horne
as Mr. Andrews
Candy Ann Brown
as Ramona
Gloria Gifford
as Darlene
Beverly Todd
as Lahoma Brown Paige
Hal Williams
as Carl Roberts
Jim Davis
as Mr. Wilkenson
Don Blakely
as Bartender
