Satchel Paige opened baseball for black players (The Kansas City Star)
It was precisely 68 years ago that the sensational Leroy “Satchel” Paige first called Kansas City home, helping transform the Kansas City Monarchs into the mightiest team in black baseball and setting the stage for racial integration of the national pastime and the nation itself. Satchel had never had much of a home before that. He fled Mobile, a reminder of his racially segregated and …
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Satchel Paige opened baseball for black players (The Kansas City Star)
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