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...Satchel Paige took one long, pleased look at the 78,382 fans. Said Satch: "I should be working on percentage." The crowd that jammed Cleveland's Municipal Stadium last week was the largest in major-league night baseball. All Cleveland had come to see 1948's biggest drawing card pitch the league-leading Indians into their eighth straight victory...
...Satchel pitched in 42 games, won 31, lost four. In 1936 he pitched (and won) five games in one week. His idolizing Negro fans expect him to play in every game. Satchel once pitched a no-hitter in Pittsburgh, drove all night to Chicago, shut out another team in twelve innings next day. Pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1942 Negro World Series, Showoff Satchel purposely passed a man to get Catcher Josh Gibson (Negro baseball's Babe Ruth) at bat, then forced him to send...
...exhibitions against white teams, Paige has faced and humbled the best. He struck out Rogers Hornsby five times in one afternoon. Joe DiMaggio nicked Satchel for one slim single in five games (said Joe: "Best pitcher I ever saw"). After dropping a 13-inning, 1-0 pitching duel to Paige, Dizzy Dean paid Satchel a dizzying tribute: "Me and Satch could win 60 games in one season." (To a reporter, Satchel Paige once confided the secret of his success: "Diet. I eat only fried foods...
Born with Control. Playing summers in the U.S. and winters in Central and South America, Satchel Paige earned $36,000 one year, and spent it in handfuls (he has a white Lincoln, a red Cadillac, a red jeep, a pallid station wagon and an arsenal of over 20 shotguns). Lately he has pitched only in three-to five-inning stints. Some of Satchel's speed is gone, but not his control ("I was born with control...
...Bill Veeck watched him throw about 50 assorted pitches to Manager Lou Boudreau, second best hitter in the American League. Only three or four were wide of the plate, and most of them had stuff. In his two-inning relief debut against the St. Louis Browns three days later, Satchel allowed two singles, no runs, struck out one, walked nobody...