Event Details - Bay Film Series: The League

For over 25 years, the Bay Film Series has celebrated the art of film-making, showing the best in local, international, documentary, and independent cinema at Bay College.

Films are shown at 7:00pm ET in the Besse Theater – Building 700, 2001 N. Lincoln Rd. Escanaba, MI.

Tickets are available at the Box Office located on Main Campus or online. Visit www.baycollege.tix.com or call the Box Office at 906-217-4045 to purchase tickets.

Admission is $5 for the public and K-Bay $2*
*K-Bay includes any students in Kindergarten through Bay College and Bay College employees. Bay College students and employees will be asked to show their Bay I.D.

The 2023 – 2024 Bay Film Series:
December 7, 2023
January 27, 2024
February 15, 2024
March 21, 2024
April 11, 2024

Dec 7 – The League

The second of our sports documentaries this semester, The League, according to The Los Angeles Times, is “equal parts tribute and lament, as complicated as this country.”

According to Rotten Tomatoes, this film “celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League baseball's triumphs and challenges through the first half of the twentieth century. The story is told through previously unearthed archival footage and never-before-seen interviews with legendary players like Satchel Paige and Buck O'Neil -- whose early careers paved the way for the Jackie Robinson era -- as well as celebrated Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron who started out in the Negro Leagues. From entrepreneurial titans Cumberland Posey and Gus Greenlee, whose intense rivalry fueled the rise of two of the best baseball teams ever to play the game, to Effa Manley, the activist owner of the Newark Eagles and the only woman ever admitted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, The League explores Black baseball as an economic and social pillar of Black communities and a stage for some of the greatest athletes to ever play the game, while also examining the unintended consequences of integration.”

2024 Film titles will be announced soon! Check back for film details.

For more information, contact the Events Department at events@baycollege.edu or 906-217-4040. Additional information can be found on the College’s facebook page as well, @BayCollege