Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple is developing a drama series about Negro League Baseball, Variety has learned.The streamer has acquired the rights to the non-fiction book “If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige” by Donald Spivey to develop as a series.
It will explore the story of Negro League Baseball using the life and legacy of the legendary athlete and showman Leroy “Satchel” Paige, one of baseball’s greatest pitchers and star of Negro Leagues for many years.Paige is a baseball legend, having been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
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