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Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame .
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical film directed by Richard A. Colla [1] and based on Leroy's autobiography, Don't Look Back : Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball. [2] It stars Louis Gossett Jr. and Beverly Todd. [3]
Rich Hill is the oldest active MLB player.. This is a list of Baseball players.Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization in North America. The oldest person ever to play MLB was Satchel Paige, who, at the age of 59, made a major league appearance twelve years after his Major League career had ended.
Satchel Paige, in an undated photo from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, was a major star from the 1920s on. He playing for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1941 to 1947 and later for the Kansas ...
Seventy-five years ago, Satchel Paige became the oldest rookie in MLB history and helped Cleveland win a World Series. That’s at the center of a new NLBM exhibit.
The Bismarck (N.D.) Corwin-Churchills team won the first NBC World Series behind the pitching of Satchel Paige, middle of back row. Bismarck defeated the Duncan (Okla.) Halliburtons 5-2 in the ...
Bill Veeck, the majority owner and manager of St. Louis Browns, signed Satchel Paige on July 17, 1951, and announced the 45-year-old would start the following night against the Washington Senators. [1] In his first game back in the major leagues since 1949, Paige pitched six innings of shutout baseball before giving up three runs in the 7th inning.
1971 inductee Satchel Paige. Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1971 featured a new committee on the Negro leagues that met in February and selected Satchel Paige, [1] who spent most of his career in Negro league baseball before joining the Cleveland Indians in 1948, when he was over 40 years old.