Description

Throughout the 1970's, Bill Lee was the ultimate gonzo baseball
player, a brilliant left-handed pitcher who flouted every manager or
front office executive who tried to control him. The fans loved him
and so did the sportswriters who delighted in asking the usual
baseball questions, only to get philosophical responses involving the
relationship between Camus and the curveball or the effects of karma
on a pitcher's rotator cuff.

Blacklisted from professional baseball in 1983, Lee was left to roam
the world in search of a chance to play the game he loves. Harkening
back to the days of barnstormers like the mythical Satchel Paige, who
traveled the globe in search of good baseball, Lee's adventures have
taken him across the United States to China, Russia, South America,
and every province in Canada. The film follows Lee, approaching sixty
years young, on a road trip from his farm in Vermont to the
impoverished baseball mecca of Cuba and on his triumphant return to
Fenway Park. Along the way, we hear from former teammates, family
members, sportswriters, fans, and especially Lee himself about the
unique life and career that spawned the legend of a ballplayer who
will forever be known as simply the SPACEMAN.

Cast

Bill "Spaceman" Lee
Fred Lynn
DIck Williams
Luis Tiant
Annabelle "Lefty" Lee

Festivals

Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival
Woods Hole Film Festival

Production Credits & Notes

Produced and Directed by:
Brett Rapkin & Josh Dixon