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Satchel (Hardcover)

By: Larry Tye (Author)

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"Tye's writing is a pleasure, relaxed but economical, providing a more vivid sense of life in black baseball than any of the several other books on Paige and the Negro Leagues."

"One of the challenges for [Paige's] biographer...is to distinguish the actual from the apocryphal--but to give readers enough of the latter for its sheer entertainment value. In this definitive and impressively researched biography,...Larry Tye succeeds in doing precisely that, offering a rich and nuanced portrait of Paige that is as complex as it is thrilling to read."

"It would probably be difficult to write a boring book about Satchel Paige, and Tye certainly has not done so. Through exhaustive research, interviews, and correspondence with more than 350 people, he has surely given us a definitive account of the man and of the player."

"[A] discerning, empathetic and hype-free...biography....Paige's contribution to baseball history, already enormous, is enhanced by the strong, solid arguments that Mr. Tye has constructed."

"Read it if you love baseball and want to find out more about one of its true heroes. Read it equally if you want to learn how Jim Crow robbed a baseball great of his true place in the game."

Publisher's note

A portrait of the Negro League pitcher evaluates the role of discrimination in limiting his career, covering such topics as his near-defeat of a young Joe DiMaggio, the Jim Crow biases that prevented his signing with the big leagues until he was in his forties, and his lasting legacy.

The definitive biography of Satchel Paige, an all-American story of struggle and triumph about the greatest pitcher to ever throw a baseball
In his hometown streets of Mobile, Alabama, Satchel Paige fired rocks with enough power and precision to bring down a bird or a rival gang member. In the Negro Leagues he fine-tuned a pitch so fast that catchers complained it set their mitts on fire. After a young Joe DiMaggio managed a scratch single off of him, a Yankees scout wired his bosses, "DiMaggio all we hoped he'd be. Hit Satch one for four."
But racial discrimination kept the Yankees and every other big league team from signing Paige until he was forty-two--when he was voted Rookie of the Year. While many dismissed him as a Stepin Fetchit if not an Uncle Tom, this book makes clear that Paige was something else entirely--a quiet subversive, defying Uncle Tom and Jim Crow. He pitched so spectacularly that white writers and fans turned out to watch black baseball. He drew the spotlight first to himself, then to his all-black Kansas City Monarchs, and inevitably to the Monarchs's rookie second baseman Jackie Robinson.
In the process, Satchel, even more than Jackie, opened the door for African Americans to the national pastime and forever changed his sport and this nation.

Annotation

Larry Tye presents the first authoritative biography of one of the greatest players and characters in baseball history, Leroy "Satchel" Paige, whose mythic status has baffled potential biographers as much as the batters who had the misfortune of facing him. Until now, basic information such as Paige's real name and date of birth have remained a mystery, perpetuated by Paige himself, who notably provided conflicting reports of his own childhood. When it came to Paige's baseball career, the legends outnumber the facts: Did he really once call his teammates off the field for an inning, and then strike out the side? Was he known to intentionally walk hitters to load the bases, just to make the game more interesting? Did he once win more than 60 games in the Negro Leagues? Did he actually pitch in a big league game at the age of 59? Tye answers all of these questions and many more, in a riveting biography worthy of one of baseball's neglected legends.

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