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From Grove Hall it was on to the last stop a King fundraiser at the nightspot Satch's in the Back Bay, where the mayor and the candidate exchanged platitudes for the last time before Washington returned to the Windy City...
...credible in this very observant intellectual community. It is instructive to note that the last boycott held by a group of Harvard Black students (i.e., before Afro. Am Studies, the Foundation, etc.) was not against some "racist" person or policy of the University, but against former Black basketball couch Satch Sanders, a warm and caring person who sacrificed part of his professional career to work with Harvard students. Some Black students boycotted him because he "played too many whites." One can only wonder where this self-destructive behavior ends...
...dark upstairs at Satch's, and the audience of 20 or so is looking around, trying to figure out what's going on up on the small stage. Gradually, the lights come up and the booming theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey is heard...
...leagues, won 2,000, including 100 no-hitters, and in one year played 153 games, tailing on 29 consecutive days. Said St. Louis Ace Dizzy Dean, who lost a 1-0, 13-inning exhibition to him: "My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet Satch shoots up to the plate." Known for his pinpoint control-and showmanship-Paige could drive five nails into a board with ten pitches. He spent six years on and off in the majors, where he was always a great crowd pleaser and sometimes still a great pitcher. In his last...
...agents. Willie Mays, now 50, was a 15-year-old centerfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons when tie had his first and only confrontation with Paige: "I hit a double off him and he went to the first baseman and says, Who is that young fellow?' Then Satch says, and I heard this, 'Let me know when he comes back up.' I come to the plate next time and the first baseman says, There he is.' Being 15, I'm not sure what's going on ... All I can tell you is that...