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Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball (MLB). His career spanned five decades and culminated with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame .
Kansas City responded in the next frame when W. Brown hit a leadoff single and Buck O'Neil hit a home run that made it 8–7. The next run proved to be the last one, and it was scored by Irvin on a home run to right field in the sixth inning, and O'Neil committed the final out in the ninth inning as the Eagles proved victorious.
Satchel Paige, in an undated photo from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, was a major star from the 1920s on. He playing for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1941 to 1947 and later for the Kansas ...
The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. Wilkinson was the first white owner at the time of the establishment of the team. [1]
In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York’s Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars.
It’s a historic site in Paterson, New Jersey, where Negro League greats of yesteryear such as Larry Doby, Satchel Paige and Monte Irvin played. The stadium had been sitting empty since 1997.
Soul of the Game (released as Field of Honour in the United Kingdom) is a 1996 television film about Negro league baseball.. The film stars Blair Underwood as Jackie Robinson, Delroy Lindo as Satchel Paige, Mykelti Williamson as Josh Gibson, and Harvey Williams as "Cat" Mays, the father of Willie Mays.
The team featured three players who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: center fielder Willard Brown; and pitchers Hilton Smith and Satchel Paige. [1] The team's leading batters were: Willard Brown- .328 batting average, .555 slugging percentage, five home runs, 29 RBIs in 33 games