Tim Reid as Joe

Vonte Sweet as Alphonso

Vonetta McGee as Brenda

María Celedonio as Ella

Robert Guillaume as Uncle Buddy

Zero Hubbard as Hubie

Rosalind Cash as Janet Mickens

Daphne Maxwell Reid as Coach Dawson

LaVerne Anderson as Cindy

Marquita Terry as Tamara

Don Drysdale as Baseball Announcer (voice)

Fred Pinkard as Thaddeus

Whitman Mayo as Jesse

George Kirby as George

William Karnes as UPS Man

Della Reese as Ella DuChamps (voice)

Anne Betancourt as Cashier

Brock Peters as Gus

Tyra Ferrell as Ricki Sewell

Eric Chambers as Creole Kid

Roscoe Lee Browne as Buck