Island of Baseball. 2020. Directed by Craig Davidson.

Island of Baseball tells the story of the golden age of Cuban baseball prior to the Cuban revolution, and the story of a century of Cuban baseball and how baseball built a bridge between the U.S. and Cuba. It uncovers the lost history of the U.S. Negro Leagues role in shaping Cuban baseball, and reveals a time before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when the greatest black American baseball stars went to Cuba to play integrated baseball in the Cuban national league. Cuban baseball scholars Felix Julio and Roberto Echevarria are joined in recounting this history by cultural figures like the Buena Vista Social Club’s Omara Portuondo and famed Tropicana choreographer Santiago Alfonso, and baseball greats Luis Tiant Jr. and Tommy Lasorda. On the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Negro Leagues in 1920, the time has come to tell this story.