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Satchel Paige's America

Satchel Paige's America

Fox, William Price

Paperback

AthletesBaseball & SoftballBlack American Studies

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ISBN10: 0817351892
ISBN13: 9780817351892
Publisher: Fire Ant Books
Published: Mar 16 2005
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.74 Depth: 8.54
Language: English

Captures the sometimes outrageous, often humorous, and always bigger-than-life spirit of the World's Greatest Pitcher, Leroy Satchel Paige

This book began when the author met the Satch for the first time at the Twilight Zone Lounge of the Rhythm Lanes Bowling Alley in Kansas City. What started as a simple interview for Holiday magazine quickly grew into an animated conversation that lasted nearly a week as Paige and Fox moved from bar to club to restaurant to auto repair shop and from one topic to the next. Fox describes, with amazement, the reception the legendary baseball player received at Gates' Place, a famous barbecue restaurant, and The Flamingo, a big dance club. Over the course of the week, Paige shared stories about his start in the Negro leagues, his time with the Kansas City Monarchs, and barnstorming around the country, sleeping on the ground because there were no hotels for blacks. He also tells of his breakthrough to the big leagues when he signed with the Cleveland Indians and later pitched two shutouts against the Chicago White Sox.

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