It is a real treat to have award-winning filmmaker Scott Orris join us to talk about the subject of his upcoming film Rap Dixon: Beyond Baseball and discuss the film and of course, the legendary player the film is centered on.
Rap Dixon
Director Scott Orris talks about his film Rap Dixon: Beyond Baseball
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Rap Dixon
When we think about the stars of the Negro Leagues of baseball, names like Satchel paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Bell and others come to mind. When a name gets told to you from that era that all the players talk highly of that you are not familiar with, that is truly intriguing. Rap Dixon is one of those players that teammates and opponents alike say he may have been one of the greatest players ever in pro baseball.
Rap was known to have a canon for an arm, he played for 16 seasons and left the game with a .325 career batting average. It is documented that he had 14 straight at bats where he got a hit and a total of 16 in a row that he reached base at one point in his career. His story off of the field is amazing too as many tell the tales of how how humble the man was about his extraordinary abilities as an athlete. He never let it go to his head and would seldom let others talk him up in his presence.
Scott Orris, a film maker iis in the process of making a documenteary about this legend and is calling it Rap Dixon: Beyond Baseball. Scott joins us in the podcast above to share his passion in telling the tale of this player from a century ago. Follow Scott and the journey to making the film at the following links:
Lineage Line Films Face Book Page
Lineage Line Films on Linked In
Scott has a vintage Negro Leagues Baseball film out now that has won awards called There Were Giants and it is free to watch right now on Vimeo.
Credits
The banner photo is of Large 1932 team photograph of what appears to be an all-star type assemblage of various players on various teams including Chucho Correa, Rogelio Alonzo, Eugenio Morin, Joseito Rodriguez, Lazaro Salazar, Oscar Rodriguez, Cheo Ramos, Cando Lopez and Francisco Quevedo, taken by an unknown.
A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: Scott Orris, Larry Lester's great books onthe Negro Leagues, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com
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