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Negro League Baseball Drama Series In Works At Apple From Magic Johnson, Peter Guber & Kapital Entertainment

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Apple Studios has secured the rights to Donald Spivey’s non-fiction book, If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige, for drama development with an eye toward a series order.

The high-profile Negro League Baseball project comes from Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mandelay’s Peter Guber, and Oscar nominee Ron Shelton, who is behind such sports film classics as Bull Durham and White Men Can’t Jump.Apple Studios co-produces with Kapital Entertainment, which is also behind the upcoming ABC Emmett Till limited series Women Of the Movement.The Apple series will explore the epic and remarkable story of Negro League Baseball using the life and legacy of the legendary athlete and showman Leroy “Satchel” Paige, one of baseball’s greatest

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