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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 .
The walls, floors and ceilings inside the Kansas City home that Negro Leagues legend Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige occupied for the last 32 years of his life still sit charred, blackened to ...
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]
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.
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The following is the list of players on the Kansas City Monarchs all-time roster.These are Kansas City Monarchs players who appeared in at least one game for the Monarchs from 1920 to 1965, while based in either Kansas City, Missouri or Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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 ...
WP: Satchel Paige (1–0) LP: Rufus Lewis (0–1) Boxscore Game 1 matched Hilton Smith for Kansas City and Leon Day for Newark, but each would not factor in the final decision, while each team lost a player due to injury.