Word: satch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write for the News Board whenever and as much as you want. Typing with one finger is the only preliminary requirement, but we'll teach you how to hob-nob with the greatest sports figures of our times--Floyd Wilson, John Yovicsin, Wild Bill McCurdy, Edo, Yaz, Bobby and Satch...
...Paige. "I'm glad to be back to my love." With that simple pronouncement last week, old Satchelfoots signed a contract with the Atlanta Braves, who will use him as a pitching coach for the balance of this season and in 1969. The job will give the ageless Satch time to log another 158 days on a major-league roster, thus qualifying him for a $250-a-month pension...
...Satchel is one of the greatest pitchers of all time," said Braves Owner William Bartholomay, "and baseball would be guilty of negligence should it not assure this legendary figure a place in the pension plan." That it would. Though Satch leaves everyone guessing about his age, he was born some time around 1905, the son of a Mobile, Ala., gardener. In an era when professional sport was for whites only, the gangling, broad-shouldered iron man with the blazing fastball had to sweat out a living on the old Negro circuit. For almost three decades, he pitched as often...
...Satch finally arrived in the majors in 1948 when Bill Veeck signed him for the Cleveland Indians. Although past 40, he helped the Indians to their first American League pennant in 28 years. In 1951 he followed Veeck to the old St. Louis Browns, with whom he spent almost three years as a relief pitcher. He later played for the Miami Marlins in the International League. In 1965 he made his last big-league appearance, with the Kansas City Athletics...
...added up to just over four years in the majors, and the pension rules set a five-year minimum. Bartholomay makes it clear that charity has nothing to do with signing Satch. "With his tremendous background," said Bartholomay, "Paige is expected to be a great help in working with young players." He may even get into a game or two. After all, in his final appearance with the A's, at the age of 60 or thereabouts, he held the Boston Red Sox scoreless for three innings...