Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

[...]other African American athletes also emerged as America's greatest athletes during these times - one need only kvoke the names of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, but kasmuch as baseball was generally regarded as the national pastime, Paige served chiefly as a transition figure who not only prep...

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Published in:African American review 2009, Vol.43 (4), p.780-781
Main Author: Margolies, Edward
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Bell, James Thomas (1903-91)
Dean, Jay Hanna (Dizzy)
Feller, Bob
Gibson, Josh (1911-47)
Louis, Joe (1914-81)
Owens, Jesse (1913-80)
Paige, Satchel (1906-82)
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Robinson, Jackie (1919-72)
Ruth, George Herman (Babe)
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Summary:[...]other African American athletes also emerged as America's greatest athletes during these times - one need only kvoke the names of Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, but kasmuch as baseball was generally regarded as the national pastime, Paige served chiefly as a transition figure who not only prepared the way for blacks to enter the major leagues, but by extension also prepared the way for African Americans to penetrate other levels of American society. [...]if Tye's biography appears murky around the edges, he can be forgiven. (In this connection one thinks of Babe Ruth and Louis Armstrong, whose talents were also developed k reform schools.) Not long after being discharged, Paige was recruited by a successive number of Negro teams, each of which offered him more money than its predecessor.
ISSN:1062-4783
1945-6182
1945-6182
DOI:10.1353/afa.2009.0058