Overview
- The documentary, which follows Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West Little League team, premieres Tuesday on TBS at 10:30 p.m. ET after the Dodgers–Blue Jays game.
- OWN will present the film as an OWN Spotlight on Thursday, May 7, extending its reach beyond sports viewers.
- The film revisits JRW’s 2014 run as the first all-Black U.S. Little League champion and explains how Little League later vacated those wins over a falsified residency boundary map.
- Director Kevin Shaw’s feature, produced by State Street Pictures with Robert Teitel and Betsy Steinberg, debuted at the Chicago International Film Festival and won the Audience Award and The Chicago Award for Best Documentary.
- Using rare footage and new interviews with the now-grown players, the story centers brotherhood, community pride, and systemic hurdles in youth sports that rules about where players live can create.