The X-Files: The Unnatural

Case: Mulder investigates the story of a Negro League baseball player who just might be an alien.

Destination: Roswell, New Mexico and THAT baseball field.

“I don’t want to be no famous man. Just want to be a man.”

Think about it for a minute. This is an episode about baseball players in the 1940s. They are not only black in a time when being so could be life threatening, they are aliens. Our two heroes are, for the most part, nowhere to be seen throughout this hour. This story should never have worked. It did and it does on every subsequent re-watch.

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