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Satchel Paige
American baseball player and coach (1906–1982)
Baseball player
| Satchel Paige | |
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Paige, c. 1933 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born:(1906-07-07)July 7, 1906 Mobile, Alabama, U.S. | |
| Died: June 8, 1982(1982-06-08) (aged 75) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| NgL: 1927, for the Birmingham Black Barons | |
| AL: July 9, 1948, for the Cleveland Indians | |
| September 25, 1965, for the Kansas City Athletics | |
| Win–loss record | 125–82 |
| Earned run average | 2.74 |
| Strikeouts | 1,484 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
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| Induction | 1971 |
| Election method | Negro Leagues Committee |
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseballpitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his
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Satchel Paige
The numbers do not do justice to his legend.
The stories, however, keep alive the memory of a man who became bigger than the game. Leroy “Satchel” Paige was bigger than mere numbers.
Apocryphal stories surround Paige, who was born July 7, 1906 in Mobile, Ala. He began his professional career in the Negro Leagues in the 1920s after being discharged from reform school in Alabama. The lanky 6-foot-3 right-hander quickly became the biggest drawing card in Negro baseball, able to overpower batters with a buggy-whipped fastball.
Paige, a showman at heart, bounced from team-to-team in search of the best paycheck – often pitching hundreds of games a year between regular Negro Leagues assignments and barnstorming opportunities. During the 1930s, Paige’s stints with Negro National League powerhouse Pittsburgh Crawfords were interrupted by seasons with teams in North Dakota and the Dominican Republic.
In the late 1930s, Paige developed arm problems for the first time. Kansas
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Satchel Paige
(1906-1982)
Who Was Satchel Paige?
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige slipad his pitching talents in reform school. Denied entry to the Major Leagues, he began his professional baseball career in the Negro Leagues in 1926 and became its most famous showman. Paige finally broke through to the Majors as a 42-year-old rookie, and was inducted into the Baseball ingångsrum of Fame in 1971.
Early Life
Satchel Paige was born Leroy Robert Page circa July 7, 1906, in Mobile, Alabama. He was the seventh of 12 children born to father John, a gardener, and mother Lula, a washerwoman. It was Lula who added the "i" to their surname not long before Paige was to start his illustrious career; he maintained that she changed it to sound "high-tone."
According to Paige, his mother sent him to earn money carrying luggage for businessmen at the train hållplats, but he was frustrated with the pittance it paid. So he rigged a pole to carry several bags at once to man