Rap Dixon: Beyond Baseball | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Rap Dixon was a legendary African American baseball player who played in what were known as the Negro Leagues. This film | dG1faHFUaWxtZHBRYVE

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00:00Dixon is probably the greatest outfielder from the Negro Leagues, not in the Hall of Fame today.

00:05Fourteen straight hits. The Major League record was 12.

00:09The first home run by an African-American in Yankee Stadium.

00:12At the Pleady, the longest home run ever seen in Japan.

00:15It's a home run that's still remembered in Japan to this present day.

00:18And that trip is remembered by people who know baseball in Japan.

00:21But the legend is that Hirohito gave Rap this trophy.

00:25He said he got it for doing what he do best.

00:28What happened to that trophy?

00:31And where did it go?

00:32Nobody knows what the blacks can do because they had no publicity.

00:37His life is cut short.

00:38He never really lived long enough to know what he truly meant to the game.

00:43Rap Dixon belongs with more than a few others up in Cooperstown.

00:48The story is kind of lost in the shadows.