Friday, July 21, 2017

ESPN Films Presents "Baltimore Boys" Documentary - AUGUST 8th - ALL-MET ELITE

ESPN Films
Presents
"Baltimore Boys"
 ALL-MET ELITE
 
DUNBAR HS.
BALTIMORE MD.
 
ESPN Films will feature “Baltimore Boys,” co-directed by Marquis Daisy and Sheldon Candis, will air at 8 p.m. ET. August 8, on ESPN
 
 
In the early 1980s, the city of Baltimore was reeling – a shell of a once vibrant urban center that could trace its painful decline to the riots of 1968, the economic decline of the ‘70s, and more recently, the rise of crack cocaine on the streets. But in the city’s troubled East Baltimore neighborhood, there was one beacon of hope: The Dunbar High School boys basketball team. Under the resolute leadership of Bob Wade – a defensive back for NFL legends Vince Lombardi and Don Shula – the Dunbar Poets entered the decade as a powerhouse.

But from 1981 to 1983, they became something even greater – arguably the best high school basketball team that ever played. Over two seasons, they went 59-0, and 11 players on their rosters went off to Division I programs. Four would become future NBA players: David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues and Reggie Lewis, three of them making history by getting selected together in the first round of the 1987 draft.

In the ESPN Films documentary “Baltimore Boys,” directors Marquis Daisy and Sheldon Candis chronicle the journey of those four boys and their coach, who reached heights that they couldn’t have imagined, even if their saga was capped by a tragedy that made some wonder how far they ever really got away. “Baltimore Boys” Trailer: http://es.pn/2udEIE1

“This story, to me, embodies what it means to persevere, under conditions that normally hinder the growth of young boys from disadvantaged urban communities, from the very start,” said co-director Marquis Daisy.  “What’s special about this tale is, despite the bad hand that Bogues, Williams, Wingate and Lewis were dealt, in the backdrop of a time when the place that they called home was at its most dangerous, they were able to make it out of that environment and ascend to heights that hardly anyone gave them a chance to, thanks to the people who helped steer them in the right direction.”

“Baltimore Boys” will also air on ABC Sunday, August 13, at 3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT.

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