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  2. Satchel Paige - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of oldest Major League Baseball players - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Some 75 years after Satchel Paige debut, salute to ‘Black ...

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    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.

  6. Crumbling KC home of Negro Leagues great Satchel Paige takes ...

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    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 ...

  7. 1942 Negro World Series - Wikipedia

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    One of the great legends of Negro league play is the story that Satchel Paige deliberately walked the bases loaded in the late innings in order to face and strike out Josh Gibson, taunting him as he did. As frequently told in one form, Paige came into the game in the seventh inning with a 2-0 lead.

  8. NBC World Series to honor Satchel Paige heroics in Wichita to ...

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    Not only will the first 1,000 fans at Eck Stadium when the gates open at 5 p.m. Thursday receive a custom NBC World Series bobblehead of Paige, but members of Paige’s family will throw out the ...

  9. Larry Tye - Wikipedia

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    Larry Tye is an American non-fiction author and journalist known for his biographies of notable Americans including Edward Bernays (1999) Satchel Paige (2009), Robert F. Kennedy (2016) and Joseph McCarthy (2020). From 1986 to 2001, Tye was a reporter at The Boston Globe, where his primary beat was medicine.