Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 31, 1981Release Date
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (1981)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 31, 1981Release Date

Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Louis Gossett Jr.
Leroy 'Satchel' Paige

Beverly Todd
Lahoma Brown Paige

Cleavon Little
Rabbit Thompson

Ernie Barnes
Josh Gibson

Clifton Davis
Cool Papa Bell

Hal Williams
Carl Roberts

Taylor Lacher
Announcer

John Beradino
Jake Wells

Jim Davis
Mr. Wilkenson

Ossie Davis
Chuffy Russell

Tonea Stewart
Mama Paige

J.R. Horne
Mr. Andrews

Donnie Walker
Sugar Boy Porter

Don Blakely
Bartender

Candy Ann Brown
Ramona

Gloria Gifford
Darlene

Leopoldo Mandeville
Chester

Earle Willoughby
Dizzy Dean

Colia LaFayett
Mrs. Parker

Milton Stafford
Young Satchel

Eleanor Ross
CastingDirector

James Unger
Wilson Paige

Lawrence Johnson
Judge

Bobby Angelle
Outfielder

Bubba Phillips
Coach Hardy

Jim B. Smith
White Batter

James Michael Bailey
Mervyn

Cullen G. Chambers
Sportswriter (uncredited)

James Hassinger
Set Decoration

Jordan Davis
Executive Producer

Jack Elliott
Music

Danny Arnold
Executive Producer
Details.
This Movie Is About.
baseball
biography
sport
Wiki.
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.
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