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Satchel Paige
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Boston Globe reporter Larry Tye offers the first biography on Satchel Paige, the premier pitcher of the Negro Leagues, and one of the finest pitchers ever, who finally was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend covers Paige’s hardscrabble upbringing in Jim Crow Alabama to his time with the Monarchs, one of the powerhouses black teams in segregated baseball.
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On that other famous Satch: In the '70s, in the jazz section of a record store, I saw "Satch & Josh" at the top of an album cover. I had to wonder if it was a reference to jazz or baseball! Of course, it was the former, & "Josh" was Josh White, Sr., not Josh Gibson, but I'm sure it was intended to induce double-takes.
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