One of sport's first and most influential megastars, beloved baseball icon and 5-time World Series champion Reggie Jackson contemplates his legacy as a trailblazing Black athlete fighting for dignity, respect, and a seat at the table in this intimate and revealing new documentary exploring his life and barrier-busting career.
Reggie is the definitive, firsthand account of five-time World Series Champion, beloved New York icon, and one of baseball’s most influential superstars, Reggie Jackson, as he contemplates his legacy as a trailblazing Black athlete fighting for dignity, respect, and a seat at the table. Over the course of his life and barrier-breaking career, Jackson witnessed a dramatic shift in race relations across America: Starting his career in Birmingham at the height of the civil rights movement, moving to Oakland during the rise of the Black Panther Party, and landing in New York City as the highest-paid player in baseball as the Bronx was burning. Now, against the backdrop of today’s increasingly divided world, he sits down with fellow legends Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Hank Aaron, Derek Jeter, and more to discuss their own experiences, how far we’ve really come, and the leagues they want to leave behind for future generations.
Alex is an Emmy award-winning documentary showrunner and director for film and television. She is currently directing a project for HBO entitled God Save Texas (Jigsaw Productions). She’s also in pre-production on a new docu-series based on the book, How Music Got Free, for Apple. This will be her third documentary project produced by LeBron James and SpringHill Entertainment. Her episode of The Playbook (SpringHill), a new show for Netflix premiered this Fall and over the past two years she’s had the privilege to showrun a six-part, docu-series for FX called Pride, which chronicles the American LGBTQ+ Civil Rights movement. She's also in pre-production on a new four part series about race and the criminal justice system with HBO that will be produced by IPC & Blumhouse Productions.
Other recent credits include Hello Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea (Netflix/CondeNast) and Shut Up & Dribble (Showtime/SpringHill). Stapleton made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed film, Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (A&E), starring Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Ron Howard and competed at top festivals like Cannes, the New York Film Festival and Sundance. Past producing credits also include The Case Of: JonBenet Ramsey (CBS) Big Fish Texas (Nat Geo) and TakePart World (Participant Media).
