Bill Veeck

Sizzling Satchel Paige
Larry Tye | Spring 2010

The pitcher with the unhittable fireball deserves as much credit for breaking baseball’s color barrier as Jackie Robinson

Leroy Paige was born in the segregated south of Mobile, Al Read more >>
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