Satchel Paige

    (Hyperion, 2007)
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From the Publisher:

There certainly was nothing average about Leroy "Satchel" Paige, who began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn’t stop him from becoming a world-class athlete, who Joe DiMaggio described as “the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.”

This perfectly paced narrative follows Paige from his earliest days on the mound through the pinnacle of his career. Playing for dozens of teams, Satchel vanquished thousands of batters and entertained millions of devoted fans. But his part in helping to strike out Jim Crow may be his most lasting legacy.

In gripping prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero who defied the barriers of race to play the game on his own terms.
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December, 2007
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