PLAYERS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE, IT WAS NOT ALWAYS SO DIVERSE, ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE AND INTERVIEWS FROM A NEW DOCUMENTARY GIVES US A LOOK AT HOW BLACK BASEBALL PLAYERS CHANGE THE GAME.

THE FILMMAKER HAD A FATHER WHO WAS THE LAST LIVING NEGRO LEAGUE UMPIRE.

>> MY FIRST INTERVIEW WAS WITH MY FATHER.

MY HOMETOWN.

IS WHERE THE MUSEUM IS.

I FLEW THERE AND TOOK A CREW WITH ME.

I RAISED MONEY TO START THE PROCESS.

I STARTED DOING THESE INTERVIEWS.

I BECAME IN LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO WERE A PART OF THIS STORY.

IT IS AMERICAN HISTORY.

HISTORY MOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT.

BLACKS NEEDED TO CREATE SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN.

BLACK PLAYERS WERE THE FIRST TO GO TO LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND INTRODUCE THE GAME OF BASEBALL.

TO CUBA, PUERTO RICO, VENEZUELA , AND BLACKS WERE THE FIRST TO GO TO JAPAN TO PLAY BASEBALL.

YOU THINK ABOUT THE GREAT JAPANESE PLAYERS IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES, A BYPRODUCT OF THIS.

THEIR ANCESTORS LEARNED THE GAME FROM THESE GREAT BLACK PLAYERS.

IT IS A BEAUTIFUL HISTORY, FUN, ENGAGING, IT WAS LIFE-CHANGING.