Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film directed by John D. Hancock, about a baseball player of limited intellect who has a terminal illness, and his brainier, more skilled teammate. It is film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris. It was previously dramatized in 1956 on the "U.S. Steel Hour" with Paul Newman, Albert Salmi and George Peppard.
Paul Newman appeared in the movie version of Bang the Drum Slowly.
The context paragraph doesn't state who was in the movie version.  It may have been Paul Newman, but it may have been any number of other actors.  We only know for sure that Newman was in the 1956 dramatized version.  