Redford in Jackie Robinson Feature
Friday, April 30, 2004 9:50 AM EDT
Robert Redford will play Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey in a feature that chronicles the breaking of baseball's color barrier, an untitled drama about Jackie Robinson, Rickey and manager Leo Durocher.
This will mark Redford's first foray into bigscreen baseball since 1984's "The Natural".
In the mid-1940s, Rickey scouted the Negro Leagues, lying that he was setting up his own league for black ballplayers when he was really trying to find a player with the resolve to withstand insults and taunts from fans, opposing players and teammates.
