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Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Richard A. Colla and based on Leroy's autobiography, Don't Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. It stars Louis Gossett Jr. and Beverly Todd.
- Biography Drama Sport
May 31, 1981 · Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige: Directed by Richard A. Colla. With Louis Gossett Jr., Beverly Todd, Cleavon Little, Ernie Barnes. Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues, and later in the major leagues.
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- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Richard A. Colla
- 1981-05-31
Synopsis. Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, star pitcher in the Negro Leagues, and later in the major leagues. Traces his life from his troubled youth, including his life in a detention school for Negroes, to his highs and lows in baseball, and in his personal life.
- Richard A. Colla
- 1
- Brad Kesten
- 98 min
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The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the '20s, 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.
- Richard A. Colla
- Donnie Walker
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.
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About. “Don’t look back,” said legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige “Something might be gaining on you.” That’s how Paige went through life. Straight ahead, no regrets. Here it is, hit it. (Hardly anyone could.)