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Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter (Ted Ross), charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) steals a bunch of Negro League players away from their teams, including catcher/slugger Leon Carter (James Earl Jones) and Charlie Snow (Richard Pryor), a player forever scheming to break into the segregated Major League Baseball of the 1930s by masquerading as first a Cuban ("Carlos Nevada"), then a Native American ("Chief Takahoma"). They take to the road, barnstorming through small Midwestern towns, playing the local teams to make ends meet. One of the opposing players, Esquire Joe Calloway (Stan Shaw), is so good that they recruit him. Bingos team becomes so outlandishly entertaining and successful, it begins to cut into the attendance of the established Negro League teams. Finally, Bingos nemesis Potter is forced to propose a winner-take-all game: if Bingos team can beat a bunch of all-stars, it can join the league, but if it loses, the players will return to their old teams. Potter has two of his goons kidnap Leon prior to the game as insurance, but he escapes and is key to his sides victory. As it turns out, there is a major league scout in the audience. After the game, he offers Esquire Joe the chance to break the color barrier; with Bingos blessing, he accepts. Leon glumly foresees the decline of the Negro League as more players follow Esquire Joes lead, but Bingo, ever the optimist, cheers him up by describing the wild promotional stunts he intends to stage to bring in the paying customers.
Billy Dee Williams
Bingo Long (P)
James Earl Jones
Leon Carter, All-Star (C)
Richard Pryor
Charlie Snow, All-Star (RF)
Rico Dawson
Willie Lee Shively, All-Star (RF)
Sam 'Birmingham' Brison
Louis Keystone - All-Star - SS
Jophery C. Brown
Emory 'Champ' Chambers, All-Star (3B)
Leon Wagner
Fat Sam Popper, All-Star (1B)
Tony Burton
Issac, All-Star (CF)(C)
John McCurry
Walter Murchman, All-Star (LF)
Stan Shaw
Esquire Joe Callaway, All-Star (CF)
Otis Day
Rainbow, All-Star (bat boy)
Ted Ross
Sallison 'Sallie' Potter, Owner of Ebony Aces
Mabel King
Bertha Dewitt, Owner of Charcoal Kings
Sam Laws
Henry Dunbar, Owner of Baltimore Elite Giants
Alvin Childress
Horace Quigley, Owner of Atlanta Black Crackers
Ken Foree
Honey, Potter's Goon
Carl Gordon
Mack, Potter's Goon
Ahna Capri
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