Producer: Torrence Wilson
Editor: Matt Gaynes
This one is close to my heart. Some ideas are so cool and simple I hate saying I didn’t think of them. I didn’t think of this one. This was the brainchild of editor extraordinaire Matt Gaynes. Producer Torrence Wilson had made a trip out to Alabama to get some drone footage of Rickwood Field. Matt Gaynes thought of using the drone footage and adding some of the Negro League players onto it. There were many love soaked hours spent searching royalty free archives to find the right photos of the players, the crowds and the fields for this project. I am a history nerd and there is a reverence to me in marrying the images of players who have become immortal with the humble fields they played on. This project was pure joy for me.