The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Directed by John Badham
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They put the ball in baseball.
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.Read moreLess
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
The story
Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long's outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Billy Dee WilliamsBingo
James Earl JonesLeon
Richard PryorCharlie Snow
Jophery C. BrownChamp
Tony BurtonIssac
John McCurryMurch
Stan ShawEsquire Joe
DeWayne JessieRainbow
Ted RossSallieExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Hal Barwood
- Screenplay
- Matthew Robbins
- Producer
- Michael Chinich
- Producer
- Rob Cohen
- Director
- John Badham
- Director of Photography
- Wilmer Butler
- Editor
- David Rawlins
- Original Music Composer
- William Goldstein