Don't Look Back: the Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige (TV Movie)

“Don’t look back,” said legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige “Something might be gaining on you.”

That’s how Paige went through life. Straight ahead, no regrets. Here it is, hit it. (Hardly anyone could.) As Paige, Louis Gossett, Jr. winds up and blows batters away in this biographical winner based on Paige’s book Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever.

In an era when the Major League was “whites only,” Paige dominated the talent-rich Negro League with his so-called “trouble ball." He campaigned for the day when black players could have chance at the big show. When Paige’s time finally came, he was past his prime. Yet, as he had become famous for, he made the most of it.

Beverly Todd, Cleavon Little and Ossie Davis co-star in this fond look at a sports legend's life and times. Paige was an athlete, a showman, and a trailblazer.