While his main love was for baseball, James Earl Jones often delved ... Over a decade prior, Jones played Leon Carter, a Negro League player, in the 1976 movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars ...
By Reginald Dwayne Betts When James Earl Jones was a small child ... For much of the 1960s, Mays was baseball’s highest-paid player; in 1970, his salary was $135,000, or about $1.1 million ...
Image Credit: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution/Twentieth Century-Fox/Paramount Pictures. James Earl Jones will forever be remembered for his signature basso profundo voice that gave Darth Vader ...
Wilson’s lead is a working-class Black man, a former Negro league superstar whose dreams festered when baseball’s color ... and there is James Earl Jones’ baritone, variously described ...