The Boys Who Came to Play

The Boys Who Came to Play - Film Still - (L-R) Walter 'Dirk' Gibbons, Armando VazquezBetween 1948 and 1952, Manitoba experienced the Golden Age of Prairie Baseball. In a little-known chapter of prairie history, 200 black baseball players, members of the dismantled Negro Leagues in the US, came north and gave Manitobans the best baseball they had ever seen, or may ever see again.
"There wasn't a better team around anywhere"
— Lois Bentley, 'biggest baseball fan around'

Produced with the National Film Board of Canada

Credits:


Writer/Director
Bob Huculak

Narration Writer
Robert Lower

Producers
Joe MacDonald
Jean du Toit

Executive Producers
Liz Jarvis
Phyllis Laing
Derek Mazur