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Addie Morfoot Contributor Sam Pollard’s “The League” Is Not Your Typical Baseball Doc. The documentary filmmaker grew up in the 1960s watching the St. Louis Cardinals, whose roster of players included Black or Latino players including Bill White, Curt Flood, Orlando Cepeda and Lou Brock, but did not know much about the Negro Leagues that existed when the sport was still segregated. “I knew who Jackie Robinson was and that it was because of him Blacks had integrated the Major Leagues in 1947,” says Pollard. “But what I did not know much about in 1964 at the age of 14 was that he had come out of the Negro Leagues and that the Negro Leagues had been home to Black and Latino ballplayers who had to play segregated baseball during the height of the Jim Crow era.”

pic.twitter.com/zCtmuSUB0oWills was called up to the Dodgers from the minor leagues mid-season in 1959, playing all six games in their World Series victory that year. The following year, he hit .295 and led the league with 50 stolen bases in his first full season.

Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman and sparkplug of the Cincinnati Reds' Big Red Machine who went on to spend more than two decades as a baseball broadcaster, has died. He was 77.

@Cardinals Hall of Fame great, Lou Brock. What I remember most was his smile.

Dick Zitzmann, Brock's longtime agent and friend, confirmed Brock's death on Sunday, but he said he couldn't provide any details.