Satchel Paige Tulsa Oilers card

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Posted By: Glen Turner

I guess you could have called Paige an honorary coach but he did not suit up very often he usually was at the games in the stands. The Tulsa Oilers owner A. Ray Smith kind of took care of Mr. Paige because he had very little money. The summer of 1976 Mr. Paige stayed at the Saratoga Motel about three blocks from my house. I am a pharmacist and I worked for Skaggs and Mr. Paige would shop in my store. He would always come by the pharmacy and I would have to take him out and show him where the castor oil was. I never asked him what he used it for. He always had about 3 two pound rolls of J. C. Potters Sausage in his basket.
Daffy Dean's roll for the Tulsa Oilers in 1976 was that he was head of their baseball camps for kids. I didn't see him around the ballpark too much when the Oilers were playing.
Those were the good old days.