Vahe Gregorian: Some 75 years after Satchel Paige debut, salute to ‘Black Aces’ asks what might’ve been | Baseball
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on July 7, 2023
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Could be that Satchel Paige was 42 years old when he made his first American League appearance 75 years ago July 9. Then again, he might have been 52 or some other age altogether after Cleveland owner Bill Veeck purchased his contract from the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues in 1948.
After all, as Paige once said, a goat ate the family Bible with his birth certificate in it. So who’s to say if he actually was born on July 7, 1906?
What we do know is that the . . .
