Recent Posts Tagged With 'satchel paige'

• Satchel Paige

  Posted on Sunday September 6th, 2009 at 19:50 in 1, satchel paige, bill veeck, cool papa bell

  Here’s a long recollection of Satchel by Bill Veeck: “I did not see Walter Johnson, but Leroy was the best I ever saw. If his career had run its full course in the major leagues, Paige would have held every record there was. “He had...

• The Cool Papa Bell Legend

  Posted on Sunday August 16th, 2009 at 00:50 in 1, satchel paige, buck leonard, cool papa bell legend

  About five years before Buck Leonard died, Wilt Browning of the Greensboro News & Record paid a visit to Buck in his Rocky Mount, N.C. home, and heard an explanation of the legend about Cool Papa Bell being so fast he could turn out the light and...