News Briefs: January 4, 2024
‘The League’ Kicks Off Season
COOPERSTOWN—The Film Society of Cooperstown’s sixth season will begin on Wednesday, January 10 with the 2023 movie “The League,” a documentary about the Negro League in the first half of the 20th century. The story is told with recently-unearthed archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with legendary players like Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil. “The League” explores Black baseball as an economic, social, and cultural pillar of Black communities and a stage for some of the greatest athletes in the history of the game. The movie screening is intended to pair with the Baseball Hall of Fame’s new exhibit, “The Souls of the Game: Voices of Black Baseball,” which will open in the spring. Hall of Fame President Josh Rawitch will be a special guest at the screening.Supported by the Friends of the Village Library, this season’s Film Society of Cooperstown lineup was curated by Hall of Fame researcher and writer Bill Francis and Jeff Katz, author and executive director of the Community Foundation of Otsego County. All movies will be shown in the ballroom at Village Hall (22 Main Street) at 7 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Candy will be provided by Tin Bin Alley. After “The League,” the schedule is as follows:
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