Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth settled their divorce four months after calling it quits.
14.07.2023 - 08:15 / variety.com
Michael Nordine author There’s no shortage of great movies about baseball, but there is a severe lack of films about the Negro leagues. The fifth inning of Ken Burns’ expansive “Baseball” covers them with admirable reverence, but feature-length projects — whether narrative or documentary — are vanishingly rare. “The League” is therefore something close to required viewing for devotees of our national pastime just by virtue of its existence, so it comes as a relief that Sam Pollard’s documentary (exec produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson) is also quite good on the merits. Given his résumé, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Pollard’s prior work as director includes “MLK/FBI” and “Citizen Ashe,” and he’s also edited several Spike Lee joints; in addition to a Peabody Award and career achievement prize from the International Documentary Association, he shared an Oscar nomination with Lee for 1997’s “4 Little Girls” about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
One of the film’s earliest, most important points is that the color line broken by Jackie Robinson in 1947 didn’t come into being the moment baseball was invented. Players like Moses Fleetwood Walker and William Edward White (who passed as white) were in the majors as early as the 1870s. Baseball’s segregation was formalized over the next decade, and the Negro leagues followed. And though separate was never truly equal, “The League” makes it clear that the Negro National League, Eastern Colored League and other organizations absolutely thrived. Interviewees such as Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick celebrate these achievements without forgetting that they only existed in the first place due to systemic racism — the Negro leagues’ central paradox,
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth settled their divorce four months after calling it quits.
Reese Witherspoon is officially divorced from Jim Toth.
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