Word: satchell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...punishment did more than just mar Jeff's record-it broke his wife's heart. I've never known a woman as devoted to her husband as was Frieda Jeffries. The next day as the train pulled out of Reno she sat holding a little satchel with $177,000 in it-tears streaming down her face! "Mrs. Jeff's" devotion didn't disappear with her husband's money or fame. For 37 years she never wavered once in her loyalty and love. Only a year ago Jim Jeffries remarked, "If I even turn over...
...Satchel has blinding speed, marvelous control, and, unlike most white flingers, he is a prodigious hitter. His team is the Travelers, a roving division of the Kansas City Monarchs which, like the white and bearded House of David baseballers, barnstorms, taking on all comers. Last week Monarch's Travelers played the Mobile Black Shippers. Satchel unlimbered his fearful right arm, planted his size 12's on the mound, blazed away for three innings. He faced only eleven batters, pitched only nine balls, fanned four, yielded one measly scratch hit. It was a typical Paige show and the dusky...
Apparently Satchel got strong by shouldering 200-lb. blocks of ice. Last week his old ice-wagon employer recalled his prodigious appetite: "That boy et mo' than the bosses." Satchel was born 31 years ago on Mobile's South Side. The boy played on the sandlots, then with a semi-pro outfit, then with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts. Up in the big time, he was the ace of the Pittsburgh Crawfords for seven years. The famed Homestead (Pa.) Grays snatched him up, and he found himself riding high on $250 a game, averaging one game a week. Last...
...Satchel's feats are legion. In 1933 he stretched a winning streak to 21 games, pitched 62 consecutive scoreless innings. In 1936 he pitched five nine-inning games in one week, yielded three runs. In 1937 he hit .408 (lifetime average: .362). Last year he won 54 games, lost five...
...York Yankees' great Outfielder Joe Di Maggio, after facing Satchel in exhibition games, declared the Negro had more speed than anybody. The garrulous, once-great Dizzy Dean allowed that Satchel was plenty fast, but had no curve worth mentioning. When Diz batted against Satchel, the black pitcher struck him out with three consecutive curves...