Frank Tursi, author of “Tar Heel Boys of Summer: North Carolina’s Major League Ballplayers” is scheduled to attend a Q&A following the film

Top baseball pitcher Bingo Long is fed up with how his Negro League team owner treats him, so he forms his own lineup, recruiting big-hitting Leon Carter and Charlie Snow, who dreams of playing in the majors. Boycotted by black teams, Long’s outfit play minor league white teams, earning more attention as entertainers than as players. However, their success wins them a chance to play again in the Negro League, this time as equals.

Frank Tursi is an old newspaperman. He among the last generation of journalist who worked as a time when getting the story was all that matters. He hopes they put that in his obit when the time comes. A journalist for almost 35 years, Frank spent the first three decades as a newspaper reporter and editor and the last few years before retirement as the founding editor of an award-winning, online news service that covers environmental and conservation issues along the N.C. coast.

Frank and his wife of 53 years, Doris, moved to Swansboro in 2002 when Frank joined the N.C. Coastal Federation as its Cape Lookout Coastkeeper. For 10 years, he was a fulltime advocate for the protection of natural resources along the central N.C. coast. In that role, Frank worked with people and local governments to identify and solve environmental problems.

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