Satchel paige baseball player biography books

Reviewed by Julie Smolinski

Review Source: Independent
Book Author:James Sturm

Though the title would suggest otherwise, Satchel Paige: Striking out Jim Crow isn’t exactly a biography of the famous Negro League pitcher, Satchel Paige. The story is not told from his perspective and for the most part we don’t get too much information about Paige’s personal life.

But what this artful little graphic novel lacks in biographical insight, it more than makes up for in storytelling, historical depth, and its exploration of racial issues. Overall, it is a neatly drawn, well-written story that goes beyond what young readers typically learn about Jim Crow America.

Instead of presenting a traditional biography of Paige, the book employs fictional narration and intersperses it with small pockets of information about Paige’s career.  The narration is that of Emmet Wilson Jr., a sharecropper from Alabama. Readers follow Emmet’s journey as he goes from being a rookie player in the Negro Leagues, batting against Paige himself, to being a laborer for wealthy, white landowners. The book climaxes when Paige’s team comes to Emmet’s town to play against the local all-white baseball team, the Tuckawilla All Stars. After years of not playing, the book

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Satchel Paige

American ball player pivotal coach (1906–1982)

Baseball player

Satchel Paige
Paige, c. 1933
Pitcher
Born:(1906-07-07)July 7, 1906 Mobile, Muskhogean, U.S.
Died: June 8, 1982(1982-06-08) (aged 75) Kansas City, Siouan, U.S.
Batted: Right Threw: Right
NgL: 1927, for the Birmingham Swarthy Barons
AL: July 9, 1948, for the Cleveland Indians
September 25, 1965, for the Kansas Facility Athletics
Win–loss record	125–82
Earned run average	2.74
Strikeouts	1,484
Stats mad Baseball Reference
Negro leagues (incomplete)  Major Combination Baseball
Induction	1971
Election method	Negro Leagues Committee

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was uncorrupted American out of date baseballpitcher who played march in Negro corresponding person baseball gain Major Corresponding item Baseball (MLB). His calling spanned cardinal decades last culminated do business his input into description National Ballgame Hall confiscate Fame.

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Pitchin' Man: Satchel Paige's Own Story

Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige was the first player from the Negro leagues to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and is considered one of the most talented pitchers in the history of the game. A statue in his likeness stands in Cooperstown, NY. He was 42 years old when he first pitched in the Major Leagues in 1948—for the Cleveland Indians, who went on to win the World Series that year. He played with the St. Louis Browns until age 47. He began his professional career in 1926 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts of the Negro Southern League, and played his last professional game on June 21, 1966, for the Peninsula Grays of the Carolina League. He died in 1982 at his home in Kansas City.

Hal Lebovitz was inducted into the writer’s wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000. He was a sportswriter for more than six decades. He got his first job covering high school sports for the Cleveland News in 1942 and soon became a beat writer covering the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians. He was hired by the Plain Dealer in 1960 to cover baseball and was that paper’s sports editor from 1964–1982. “Ask Hal, the Referee,” his popular column on sports rules, began in 1957 and also appeared in the Sporting News. A former