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Who Was Satchel Paige?
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige honed his pitching talents in reform school. Denied entry to the Major Leagues, he began his professional baseball career in the Negro Leagues in and became its most famous showman.
Paige finally broke through to the Majors as a year-old rookie, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in
Early Life
Satchel Paige was born Leroy Robert Page circa July 7, , in Mobile, Alabama. He was the seventh of 12 children born to father John, a gardener, and mother Lula, a washerwoman.
It was Lula who added the "i" to their surname not long before Paige was to start his illustrious career; he maintained that she changed it to sound "high-tone."
According to Paige, his mother sent him to earn money carrying luggage for businessmen at the train station, but he was frustrated with the pittance it paid.
So he rigged a pole to carry several bags at once to make the job pay better, and h
