Satchel Paige: Baseballs Ultimate Showman:

Part One The Beginning

Satchel Paige K.C. MonarchsLeroy “Satchel” Paige. He threw his first professional pitch in 1926. He threw his last in 1966, forty years later. In between those years, he threw more pitches in more games and ballparks than any other pitcher in baseball history. He was, in fact, a living legend. He was also a great promoter, of himself. But beyond that, he was probably one of the most talented and skilled players ever to throw a ball from a pitcher’s mound.

He came from humble beginnings to baseball immortality. He was born Leroy Robert Paige on July 7, 1906, in Mobile, Alabama. He was delivered at home by a midwife, which was more than most black women could afford in…