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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]
The baseball color line excluded players of Black African descent from Major League Baseball and its affiliated Minor Leagues until 1947 (with a few notable exceptions in the 19th century before the line was firmly established).
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.
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.
Phil Cockrell, Nip Winters, Satchel Paige (pictured; left to right) and Porter Moss are the only Negro league pitchers known to have thrown multiple no-hitters, with two each. Due to lack of record-keeping for Negro league baseball games, the exact number of no-hitters thrown is unknown.
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.
Soul of the Game (released as Field of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a 1996 television film about Negro league baseball.. The film stars Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson, Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige, Mykelti Williamson as Josh Gibson, and Harvey Williams as "Cat" Mays, the father of Willie Mays.