The Legend of Satchel Paige - Everything Has History 

Thats fantastic. What a great story

He was a legend to me! A great long career! Sad times when not everyone was treated the same. His brain was the reason he overcame those times and his talent made sure he’d win every time! God Bless Satchel Page

Thank you, for adding some personal history.

You have a relative named Warren

Me too!!

Me too ! Twas born in 1865 (just after the civil war), i used to love traveling all over to watch all the best players in the early 1900's. There ARE many MUCH older than myself. Satchel was GREAT !!

So cool. What city did you see him play in

I completely agree. I wish I had been alive to watch him in person

He may very well be the best ever. I'd take him number 1. Great man too.

It’s too bad we will never know how truly great he, along with all the Negro League players, truly were. Many times they played erratic schedules against inferior amateur teams on horrible fields. Some of these stats are counted in the records. The only records there are are from “colored” newspapers of the era. “White” papers only covered their games in passing if at all. If Paige had pitched his entire career in the white MLB he might have been done once he hurt his arm. Teams might not have wanted to take a chance on him, except maybe when the war hit and MLB needed 4-Fs to fill in for players in the military.

Yeah but most of those 2000 games were against low level competition. Not like all of those games were against other talented negro league teams, they played anyone who was willing. Half the teams he faced were probably like facing low level minor league teams at best.

He was even known by all the white kids growing up in the 40's and 50's. As for his stats in the negro leagues, none are kept so we have to rely on the words of a man who couldn't even tell the truth about his age. My father used to tell me of watching him pitch when he was traveling through Kansas City as a child. For him pitching in 2500 games, that was physically impossible if we do the math. Assuming he pitched all through the mid 20's, the 30's and the early 40s. Yes, there was a war and travel and baseball were severely restricted. Assuming that he witched for 25 years , there is absolutely no way that he ould pitch 100 games a year because they travelled by bus and played mostly in the south. Even playing triple headers, the math just wouldn't work.. The leader in mlb games pitched is jesse orosco. He pitched for about 25 years and was a reliever and only pitched in half that many. Dennis Eckersley barely reached 1000 and half of his games were as a closer. "Hoyt wilhelm was a knuckleballer and pitched forever and didn't get even close to 2500 games.

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Awesome, thank you. Check out some of my other videos. I have several on historic baseball if that is your thing.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Gibson may have hit 800+ HR but Aaron (fuck Bonds) did it against MLB pitching, a lot of the games Gibson played were against amateurs. It'd be like if Aaron hit most of his 755 against low level minor league teams.

Not true my brother

Thank you for the criticism. It was one of my first videos, and was still learning.

I agree. Gibson was a beast

Nice, would love to hear some of those stories

True story

Awesome, thank you!

It's truly unreal how tough classic baseball was.

I grew up in the 60’s and it was different game even back then. If you read Ball Four by Jim Bouton, you see that players were paid little and treated without respect. They had no players union and no bargaining power at all. They were practically slaves to whichever team signed them. The owners took all the money and treated the players like draft animals. Many great young pitchers were overworked and ruined their arms. Jim Bouton was one of them. Dennis McLain was another. Dean Chance was another. They sometimes pitched 300 innings per season. Today, the pitchers don’t pitch more than 100 pitches per game.

Ball Four is one of the best sports books of all time in my opinion. It's interesting that nowadays if a player has cut cuticle hes out 4-6 weeks. Ha ha

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@@everythinghashistory love our black history and I love baseball

Also, I noticed you left your water bottle in the studio!

Thanks for listening

Thank you very much!

Outside of huge baseball fans, not enough people know the name Larry Doby. I get it. Jackie was first and deserves all the respect and tributes he gets. However, Jackie didn't play in the AL. Doby was the first there and surely had to deal with all the same crap that Jackie did. He was a great ballplayer and deserves his own place in desegregating baseball

He's on my shortlist for players to go back in time to see if I could

@@everythinghashistory my Dad worked at Crosley Field in the 50s and 60s and he saw some GREAT players. He saw Spahn , Marichal , Seaver, Gibson etc but he said Satch had a fastball that moved like nobody else's. It broke in towards right handed hitters and seemed to rise . Obviously it didn't really rise but it didn't sink like most do . He got backspin on it so it crossed the plate higher than a normal fastball. Some pitchers could do that. Gossage, Ryan , Mario Soto etc . The ball seemed to jump at the last millisecond

Thats what was great about this era of basebal, you could see these all time great players in places all over the country

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What a great story! I love it

Im not sure what was considered the official Rookie of the Year Award was back then.

The Sporting News ROY has never been official.

Thank you for the tip. It was one of my first videos. Ive learned a lot since then. Feel free to check out my other baseball ones if you like the Satchel Paige Video

@@everythinghashistory will do

And i didnt ask him if he got a hit, i figured he woulda said if he did.

The Slovaks had their own league? I'm not American, there must be a interesting story behind that.

The cool thing about Satchel is he never really told anyone his accurate age. Baseball reference is a great source.

You can't get a pension for playing just one game. If so then that's not right and is messed up.

@@barrywainwright3391 As he didn't have the Service years, the Kansas City As signed him for one game in 1965 after he had retired in 1953. Ironically now with the acceptance of NLB into MLB, it wouldn't have been required. Having said this, a separate league should NEVER have been required - at all.

Its such a great debate. It is hard to translate pitchers from different eras to current eras. If given the choices you provided I would have to say Randy Johnson n my humble opinion.

I'd take prime Greg Maddux over anyone.

Bob Gibson

@@AJwoodway thats a good one

I'm from Montreal, so I got to see Pedro a few times during his Cy Young year. He is one of my favorites of all time and would be my choice in a win or die game. He also did something off the field, that many people, outside of Montreal may not know. When the Red Sox broke the curse in 2004, it also coincided with the official end of the Montreal Expos. The Red sox were always my A.L. team, so I watched every Red Sox playoff game in that memorable season! Anyway, while the Red Sox were celebrating in the Dressing room, after winning the world series and ending the curse, the champagne was flowing and all eyes were on Boston's miracle year. At one point, Pedro was being interviewed and amongst the chaos and joy, turned to the camera and gave a shoutout to the city of Montreal and the sadness he felt, that they would no longer have a team. As the tears roll, I just wanted to remind people, that Pedro was more than a great player. He was, and is an amazing person! As well as the fact that Baseball is dearly missed, in Montreal. Cheers from Montreal.

Hilarious. Youre right I never thought of that

The GOAT being Oscar Charleston.

I appreciate it. This was one of my first videos and have learned a lot since then. Not going to lie but my first videos were pretty rough