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Actor Harrison Ford has signed on to play famed Major League Baseball executive Branch Rickey in the upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic.

“Ford will star as Branch Rickey, the innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for breaking MLB’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract in 1945,” Legendary Pictures said in a statement Friday. “Two years later, at the start of the 1947 major league baseball season, Robinson was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers major league baseball team with the help of Rickey. Rickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.”

Actor Chadwick Boseman will play baseball icon Jackie Robinson.