The Native American actor know for his roles in Dances with Wolves and The Green Mile passed away September 1 at the age of 73. Here’s his obituary in The New York Times.
His baseball connection? He appeared as the ghost of a ballplayer in the 1993 TV movie Cooperstown, written by Lee Blessing and directed by Charles Haid, of Hill Street Blues fame. Blessing, who was also a writer for Homicide: Life on the Streets, won a 1993 Humanitas Prize for Cooperstown.
The IMDB description: “A baseball pitcher who never had quite the professional career he dreamed about is visited by the ghost of his former catcher, for whom he always harbored a secret jealousy. The spirit of the catcher gets him to revisit people and places from his past and gives him a new perspective on his life.”
Alan Arkin played the pitcher. Other familiar names in the cast included Hope Lange, Ed Begley Jr., Josh Charles, and Ernie Harwell as — what else — a baseball announcer.
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