Long Gone Summer @ ESPN
On Sunday, June 14 @ 9pm ET, AJ Schnack's “Long Gone Summer”, an official selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, will broadcast on ESPN.
The film chronicles Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s storied 1998 home run chase following the 1994 MLB strike. For the first time, both men discuss that summer at length, including its lasting legacy and undeniable complications.
AJ is a world-class documentarian and was generous to attend Brigadoon Sundance in 2014.
As part of the activities for the 2014 Brigadoon gathering, his film Caucus was shown in the original Sundance Screening Room and he conducted a Q+A session with the other participants following the presentation.
As a native son Missouri and a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals fan, AJ's film about the home-run record chase during the summer of 1998 will be a welcome bit of sports entertainment in a year that has been grim on many fronts.
You can catch the trailer below.
I am excited for AJ and his team and looking forward to watching some baseball Sunday night.
-Marc
