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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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.
The first 1,000 fans to opening night on Thursday at Eck Stadium will receive a bobblehead of the legendary pitcher who threw in the inaugural tournament in 1935.