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

[tedzan]

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.








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








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[Jim VB]

From a 1934 Magazine titled Colored Baseball and Sports Monthly:

[BrockJacob]

Satchel Paige folk-art painting

[JLange]

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)

[Rob D.]

Paige PC and pin:

[ChiefBenderForever]

Somebody needs to put this one up-

[ramram]

From announcer Claude Harring's scorebook, Satchel's first Major League win (Claude misspelled Paige's name):
Rob M.
Scorebook Satchel Paige game.jpg

[tedzan]

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

TED Z

[D. Broughman]

SATCHEL PAIGE by GORDON COBBLEDICK

[vintagehofrookies]

my only Satch auto, but hopefully not my last

[tedzan]

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[Chris-Counts]

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 ...

[Rob D.]

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.

[Ladder7]

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

[Kawika]

From today's funnies:

[ibuysportsephemera]

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

Jeff

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

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.

[tedzan]