At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

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

This powerful and unprecedented statement from the Hall of Fame podium was " a first crack in the door that ultimately would open and include Paige and Gibson and other Negro League stars in the shrine.

" Paige was the first inducted in 1971.

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

Other sources state that Starling Plantation was first settled in 1779 on 7, 000 acres granted by the State of Massachusetts to " Robert Paige and associates.

The Prince also appears as the murder victim in the first of the Lord Francis Powerscourt crime novels Goodnight Sweet Prince, and as a murder suspect in the novel Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige.

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.

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.

Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from classroom teacher to college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the nation's education chief.

Paige first moved to Houston in the 1970s and settled in the Brentwood subdivision.

Superintendent Paige made HISD the first school district in the state to institute performance contracts modeled on those in the private sector, whereby senior staff members ' continued employment with HISD is based on their performance.

In the first episode of the fourth season ( 2001 – 2002 ), " Charmed Again ( Part 1 )", we are introduced to Paige who is a reformed alcoholic in her early twenties working for South Bay Social Services as an assistant and would-be social worker.

In the episode " Freaky Phoebe ", Paige takes on official Whitelighter duties and gains her first charge in a witch named Mitchell Haines ( Seamus Dever ) who has the power of superhuman speed.

In the season four episode " The Three Faces of Phoebe ", Paige displays growth with her orbing powers by transporting herself across town for the first time.

Paige is first seen using this power in the episode " House Call ".

Paige has proven to be a skilled painter and sketch artist, first introduced in the season four episode, " Muse to My Ears ".

Film actress Rose McGowan was later revealed to be cast in the role of Paige ( last name later revealed as Matthews ), her first role as a series regular on a television series.

At first, Paige doesn't believe her, but they go to the manor where after seven years, Prue, Piper, and Phoebe are finally reunited with a hug.

Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16.

Following a number of roles over the next decade, Paige was selected to play Eva Perón in the first production of Evita in 1978, which brought her to the attention of the broader public.

Paige was a member of Hill's choir, and her first role on stage was playing Susanna in a school production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which was followed by parts in The Boy Mozart and solos in Handel's Messiah — " a difficult work for little children ".

After months of acting and singing auditions, Hal Prince offered the still relatively unknown Paige the title role of Eva Perón in the first stage production of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita.

The nature of the situation meant that Paige only had two-and-a-half weeks in the rehearsal process before her first performance.

Throughout season four, Paige shows that she has inherited a variety of Whitelighter powers such as orbing, and sensing.

Paige shows signs of still struggling with living up to the legend of her deceased sister Prue and her title of " Superwitch ".

Despite taking on the full duties of a Whitelighter by the eighth and final season of the series, Paige never shows the ability to orb " Up There ".

Paige has named reality television series such as Any Dream Will Do, which aim to find an unknown actor to play the lead role in a musical, as the greatest threat to theatre today, believing that " actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows ".

Prince was impressed and persuaded her to cover while Paige holidayed and sign up as a regular alternate for the remainder of Paige's contract, performing two shows a week, in preparation for succeeding Paige as the star.

All four judges from Season 2 returned: The Denver Post columnist, Cold Pizza contributor, and Around the Horn panelist Woody Paige ; former Cold Pizza co-host Kit Hoover ( who actually made her final appearance on Cold Pizza during this Dream Job season ); The Philadelphia Inquirer writer and ESPN NBA analyst who was judging possible colleagues, Stephen A. Smith ; and ESPN executive vice-president of talent, Al Jaffe.

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.

* 1983: Elaine Paige recorded a version for her album Stages.

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.

On February 6, 2009, Paige Davis announced that Trading Spaces was not picked up for a ninth season.

On June 27, 2002, Secretary of Education Rod Paige announced the creation of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics ( COA ), a blue-ribbon panel to examine ways to strengthen enforcement and expand opportunities to ensure fairness for all college athletes.

* Robert " Babyface " Paige Jr. was a center for the Harlem Globetrotters in the late 70's and early 80's.

* Paige Price ( born 1964 ), actress and singer who was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in Saturday Night Fever.

Pryce returned to the London stage the following year to star for one night only at the Royal Festival Hall for an AIDS charity alongside Elaine Paige and Lilliane Montivecchi in the 1992 revival of the Federico Fellini-inspired musical Nine.

According to John C. Paige, who wrote a historical study of the bell for the National Park Service, " We do not know whether or not the steeple was still strong enough to permit the State House bell to ring on this day.

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

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.

Paige was a teammate of Doby's when both played for Cleveland and Irvin when with Newark.

The duet " I Know Him So Well " by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson held the Number One spot on the U. K. singles charts for 4 weeks, winning the Ivor Novello Award in the process as the Best Selling Single (' A ' Side ).

Eight months later, the nomination and a win came in for the Critics ' Circle Theatre Award for Best Musical, and the show received three 1986 Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Musical, Outstanding Performance by an Actor ( Tommy Körberg ) and Outstanding Performance by an Actress ( Elaine Paige ) as well.

Paige also liked to tell a tall tale referencing one hotel at which he and Bell stayed, in which there was a short delay between flipping the light switch off and the lights actually going off due to faulty wiring, sufficient for Bell to jump into bed in the interim.

In an exhibition game against white all-stars, Bell broke for second on a bunt and run, with Satchel Paige at the plate.

On November 15, 2004, Paige announced his resignation after overseeing the President's education agenda for four years.

Dr. Paige also established the university's Center for Excellence in Urban Education, a research facility that concentrates on issues related to instruction and management in urban school systems.

As a trustee and an officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District ( HISD ) from 1989 to 1994, Paige coauthored the board's ' A Declaration of Beliefs and Visions ', a statement of purpose and goals for the school district that called for fundamental reform through decentralization, a focus on instruction, accountability at all levels, and development of a core curriculum.

Dr. Paige ’ s board of education launched that effort to provide better school safety, and the HISD police department remains the only school district police department in the country to earn accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.