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Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige is considered the most dominating and crowd-pleasing pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues. He started his professional baseball career in and played for many teams over the years, and he helped the Kansas City Monarchs to four consecutive Negro American League pennants from to and again in Before professional baseball was integrated, he played many exhibition games against major league players and often astonished and stifled them with his wide assortment of pitches. In , at the reported age of 42, Paige signed with the Cleveland Indians and had a record while helping the team win the World Series. In addition to being the oldest rookie to play in the majors, he also became the oldest man to pitch in a major league game, returning in to pitch three scoreless innings for the Kansas City Athletics.
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Unidentified photographer, Javan Emory, c.
Vintage gelatin silver print, 6 1/16 x 4 3/8 in. ( x cm)
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Exhibited: Who Shot Sports: A Photographic History, to the Present. Brooklyn Museum, 07/15/ to 01/08/ Tampa Museum of Art, 02/05/ to 04/30/ Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage, 05/25/ to 10/19/ Allentown Art Museum, 05/04/ to 07/29/ The Annenberg Space for Photography, 10/13/ to 01/25/
Legend has it that it was because of Javan Emory's extraordinary skills as a ball player that the color line was drawn by the National League. This is the only extant image of Emory and one of two known prints, this example being the finest.
Since its discovery near Philadelphia a generation ago, this image continues to raise a central question: why was this black man presented so powerfully—in equipment many young white men could not afford and in the standard pose of the tough catcher they aspired to be—when the most widely seen images of black baseball at the ti
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For Leroy “Satchel” Paige, baseball was lika parts skill and theatrics. The naturally gifted freelance pitcher was known for his fastball and infield banter in the minor, major and negro leagues, as well as internationally in countries including the Dominican Republic. “He could throw the ball right by your knees all day,” renown center fielder Cool Papa Bell once said about Paige.
Paige was among the first Black players to join an American League when he signed with the Cleveland Guardians (then known as the Cleveland Indians) on July 7, He retired from the Major Leagues in and was elected to the Hall of Fame in Paige died on June 8,
Here a few lesser-known facts about the legendary showman.
1. Paige learned how to pitch in reform school.
Leroy Robert Paige spent a hardscrabble ungdom working to support his family in Mobile, Alabama, and may have first earned the nickname “Satchel” during a stint as a porter at a local tåg station. He grew up loving basebal