'Truth' doc up to bat with Gossett

March 11, 2008 Gossett ("Roots") is partnering with Los Angeles-based Wrapped Prods. and its principals John Rittenour, Gregg Champion and Gary Ballen, who will executive produce the project with Gossett and secured an exclusive rights contract with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., to make the film. Champion, a sports producer and director who has worked for Fox Sports Net, CBS, NBC and ESPN, is directing the docu, which still is seeking a distribution partner. Champion said the film will not only focus on the untold story of the Negro Baseball Leagues but also "how jazz and baseball came together, how women influenced baseball at that time and how the economics of baseball played into black Americans succeeding in all walks of life."

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