With a professional baseball career spanning the jazz age to the space age, pitcher Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige (1906—1982) established himself not only as one of the most dominant American athletes ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 25, 1965. Satchel Paige, at age 59, became the oldest player in MLB history. He was hired for just one game. He pitched three innings for the Kansas City Athletics ...

In 1965, at the age of 22, Gordon Loveless — now of Layton — stood at the plate at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage, Alaska, looking the 60½ feet to the pitcher’s mound, waiting for the great Satchel ...

A mainstay of Negro League baseball, the Birmingham Black Barons may have never achieved the ultimate success of a Negro World Series victory, but they still left an imprint on ba ...

Baseball legend Leroy "Satchel" Paige pitched in Milwaukee several times in his career — before and after he was in the major leagues. After more than 20 years in and out of the Negro Leagues — during ...

According to baseballreference.com, Satchel Paige was born on July 7, 1906, in Mobile – 119 years ago today. However, pick any year from 1901 and 1909, and there’s a news source that, at some point, ...

October 24, 1861, is the last run of the Pony Express from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The mail service to the west ended after just 18 months as the transcontinental telegraph ...