{"id":1867,"date":"2011-07-13T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2011-07-13T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T18:37:17","slug":"paige-leroy-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"PAIGE, LEROY ROBERT &#8220;SATCHEL&#8221;, 1906-1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professional baseball player. Born&#8211; July 7, 1906, Mobile. Played baseball with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts (1927?), Birmingham Black Barons, New Orleans Black Pelicans, Pittsburgh Crawford Giants until 1948; winter ball in Latin America, 1935-1941. Signed with the Cleveland Indians, 1948; Kansas City Monarchs, 1950; St. Louis Browns, 1951. Voted most valuable relief pitcher for the Browns in 1951, 1952, and 1953. Statistics; won 23 games, last 4 in 1933; pitched 29 games in 29 days, 1934; winning streaks of 21 games and 62 scoreless innings. Named to Baseball Hall of Fame, 1971, Nickname for shoe size (14), &#8220;Satchel Foot&#8221;, shortened to &#8220;Satch&#8221;.\u00a0 Died June 8, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Webster&#8217;s American Biographies, Current Biography 1952 and 1982; and Reader&#8217;s Digest, June, 1949.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pitchin&#8217; Man. Cleveland s.n., 1948.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll Pitch Forever. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professional baseball player. Born&#8211; July 7, 1906, Mobile. Played baseball with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts (1927?), Birmingham Black Barons, New Orleans Black Pelicans, Pittsburgh Crawford Giants until 1948; winter ball in Latin America, 1935-1941. Signed with the Cleveland Indians, 1948; Kansas City Monarchs, 1950; St. Louis Browns, 1951. Voted most valuable relief pitcher for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}