# Only the Ball Was White

Title from data sheet

Intended audience: Intermediate grades through adult

Issued also as videorecording

Looks back at the time when major U.S. baseball leagues refused to hire Black athletes. Using archival footage, photographs, and interviews with former athletes, narrator Paul Winfield recounts the number of unrecognized athletes, some of whom, such as Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella, were later hired by the leagues

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1980
- Runtime: 28 min
- By: Winfield, Paul, WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.), Films Incorporated
- Genres: Education, Sports, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/onlytheballwaswhite)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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