In 1948, needing pitching for the stretch run of the pennant race, Veeck turned to the Negro League again and signed pitching great Satchel Paige amid much controversy.

* 1971 – Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

* 1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player ( d. 1982 )

* 1982 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player ( b. 1906 )

* 1972 Leroy " Satchel " Paige

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In his induction speech in 1966, Williams included a statement calling for the recognition of the great Negro Leagues players: " I've been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, and I hope some day the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players who are not here only because they weren't given a chance.

* Satchel Paige

** Satchel Paige, American baseball player ( d. 1982 )

** Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League.

* June 8 – Satchel Paige, baseball player ( b. 1906 )

This plan was criticized by the press, the fans and the players it was intended to honor, and Satchel Paige himself insisted that he would not accept anything less than full-fledged induction into the Hall of Fame.

A special Negro league committee selected Satchel Paige in 1971, followed by ( in alphabetical order ) Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Martín Dihigo, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Judy Johnson, Buck Leonard and John Henry Lloyd.

* Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of the Game.

* Maybe I'll Pitch Forever by Satchel Paige.

The great Negro League star Leroy Robert " Satchel " Paige pitched for Los Dragones of Ciudad Trujillo, a team organized by Trujillo.

A seven – time consecutive All – Star center fielder, Doby and teammate Satchel Paige were the first African-American players to win a World Series Championship when the Indians won in 1948.

Manager Biz Mackey led the Eagles, including Doby, Monte Irvin and Johnny Davis, to the Negro World Series championship over Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Monarchs in seven games to conclude the 1946 season.

Unlike their white teammates, Doby, along with Satchel Paige and Minnie Miñoso, were not permitted to stay at the nearby Santa Rita hotel but instead stayed with a local black family and used a rental car provided by the Indians for transportation.

In his 1980 appearance at age 54, Miñoso became the third-oldest player ever to play in the majors, behind Nick Altrock, who pinch-hit in 1933 at the age of 57, and Satchel Paige, who, at 59, pitched three shutout innings in his one game in 1965.

On the mound is perhaps the most famous Negro leaguer of all time, Satchel Paige, who became a rookie in the Major Leagues at age 42 in 1948.

The following year later Veeck signed Satchel Paige to a contract, making the hurler the oldest rookie in major league history.

Stepping into an organizational vacuum, as the major African American leagues of the 1920s, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League, had fallen apart by late that year, Greenlee signed many of the top African-American stars, most notably Satchel Paige.

In 1948, when the Indians won the American League pennant and World Series behind pitcher Bob Feller and shortstop / player-manager Lou Boudreau, the Indians set three Major League attendance records: they had the highest single season attendance, 2, 620, 627, which was not eclipsed until the 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers, largest regular season night game attendance of 72, 434 for the first major league start of Satchel Paige, and biggest World Series game attendance of 86, 288 for game 5 on October 10, 1948.

Minnie Miñoso and Satchel Paige did see longer gaps in their major league careers.

Although he was the first to play in the MLB, Doby was the last member elected to the Hall of the four players to ever play in both a Negro league and MLB World Series: Doby, Satchel Paige, Monte Irvin, and Willie Mays.

Robinson started with the semi-pro Mobile Tigers with fellow Negro league players Satchel Paige and Ted Radcliffe.

In 1981 Barnes played the famed baseball catcher Josh Gibson of the Negro league in the television movie Don ’ t Look Back: The Story of Leroy ‘ Satchel ’ Paige with Lou Gossett, Jr., who played Paige.

During the first half of the 20th Century, Labatt Park ( Tecumseh Park until December 31, 1936 ) was regularly visited by numerous barnstorming Negro teams from the U. S., plus a much-celebrated visit by legendary African-American pitcher Satchel Paige on June 30, 1954, when Paige was barnstorming with a baseball version of the Harlem Globetrotters.

At the start of this run the Monarchs acquired their most famous player, Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige, who had since his rookie season in 1927 built a reputation as the best hurler in black baseball for the Birmingham Black Barons, Pittsburgh Crawfords, and several other teams.

* Satchel Paige ( 1906-1982 ), American baseball pitcher

He was named after baseball player Satchel Paige and his maternal grandmother, actress Maureen O ' Sullivan.

Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí appeared on the show with silent screen star Lillian Gish and baseball legend Satchel Paige.

* Satchel Paige, an African-American baseball player

Led by Satchel Paige, Moose Johnson, and Double Duty Radcliffe, the club won the 1935 national semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kansas.