Honoring Satchel Paige....show/tell us of your Paige items
 

Twenty seven years ago this month, one of the great pitchers in BB passed away.....Leroy "Satchel" Paige.
It's a real shame that he didn't get a chance to play in the Major Leagues in his youth in the early 1930's.
Who knows what his numbers would have been; and, what records he would have achieved ?

I was fortunate enough to see him pitch for Cleveland (1948-49) and St Louis (1951-53). His double loop
wind-up was a sight to see.

And, I have always said that one cannot have enough Paige cards. Shown here are the 5 in my 1949 Bowman sets.

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1949 LEAF card....Paige's 1st (rookie) BB card.


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TED Z

From a 1934 Magazine titled Colored Baseball and Sports Monthly:

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Satchel Paige folk-art painting

Pitchin' Man and others
 

Sure do love those Bowmans! Here's my '48 and '49 Cleveland Indians Picture Pack Satchel Paige, as well as the mini bio Pitchin' Man by Hal Lebovitz (1948)

Paige PC and pin:

Somebody needs to put this one up-

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From announcer Claude Harring's scorebook, Satchel's first Major League win (Claude misspelled Paige's name):
Rob M.
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Paige....or is it Page ? ?
 

"Satch" was born Leroy Robert Page. His Mom changed their name to Paige in the early 1930's.

TED Z

Dec. 1948 sport magazine artical
 

SATCHEL PAIGE by GORDON COBBLEDICK

my only Satch auto, but hopefully not my last

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1972 test issue Paige
 

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TED Z

Here's Satchel's Exhibit card, which must be the best bargain among the few cards of Paige that were issued while he was playing ...

There are so many reproductions of the Browns clip of Paige that the value of original ones have taken a hit. This is a real one.

Glued *yikes* to an index card, then signed by the Pitch'n Man,

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From today's funnies:

Paige Minor League Scorecard
 

I am listing this on eBay tonight if anyone is interested.

Jeff

This is the only handwritten Paige letter that I have ever seen, so was obviously elated to pick it up. There is one other letter that I know of, but it is typed. This one is signed in the body of the letter (as a third-person reference!). Letterhead dates it to the 1968-69 period.

New book on Satchel Paige
 

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