Satchel Paige was 59 years old – or something close to it – when he walked off a Major League mound for the last time. Pitching for the Kansas City A’s on Sept. 25, 1965, the legendary Negro Leagues s ...

Throughout his multi-decade career, Negro League and Major League Baseball pitcher Leroy 'Satchel' Paige was applauded by fans, teammates and league members for his fastballs and his control.

Simeon Woods Richardson was born in 2000 in Sugar Land, Texas. It was nearly 20 years after Astros great James Rodney Richard ...

But Schwartz says he was called to action to remember one famous black baseball player who forever left his mark on the Bismarck-Mandan area — Leroy “Satchel” Paige. And Paige’s story is ...

THE BASICS: A PITCH FOR SATCHEL PAIGE, by Jim and Loren Keller, directed by Verneice Turner, presented by the Paul Robeson Theatre, starring Roosevelt Tidwell III (weeks 1 & 3) and Russell Holt ...

There's a good chance you're familiar with Jackie Robinson's rise from the Negro Leagues to the Brooklyn Dodgers. You may ...

"I opened this up, and there's Joe DiMaggio," McElfresh said. "Yogi Berra, Satchel Paige, Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson." There were stacks of legendary trading cards from some of America's favorite ...

Among the players celebrated is Satchel Paige, the first Black player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "If you ask people who some of the greatest pitchers of all time are," Rawitch ...

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