Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00Like I said earlier, I think I grew up in one of the best times.

00:04I'm sorry, that, you know.

00:06And yeah, there was, there was, um, segregation, but...

00:18Baseball is the most important sport in America.

00:22And if we can integrate baseball, then we can integrate America.

00:26I mean, they just lived in a certain part of town, and we lived in the other side of town.

00:31You didn't think about it one way or the other.

00:33It angered me. It angered me.

00:37When I got into the Middle East baseball, I felt free.

00:42Yes, I did feel free.

00:44You know, it's awfully easy to be racist when you've never known the other race.

00:51And, uh, I didn't.

00:53When I look at a white person, the first thing I noticed about them was their eyes.

00:59What's on their mind?

01:04They refused to play us because we were black and they were white.

01:08Our coach resigned because he would not coach a game against a black team.

01:14Do not send those black boys here or they will come back in a castle.

01:20And that's when whole hell broke loose.

01:23Yeah.

01:24You could almost hate these individuals, but then I felt sorry.

01:29So I'm not sorry.

01:31Nobody should take your dreams away from you, especially a kid.

01:42I'm not sure there is a way to heal it.

01:44It's ingrained in everybody now.

01:46The only thing we were doing was going to go play ball.

01:55And that was the spirit of all of us.

01:59To play ball.

02:01We have a big round.

02:02OK.

02:03Keep going.

02:04No.

02:05We're going to go.

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02:19It's a great ride.

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Long Time Coming: A 1955 Baseball Story | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer

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