Maybe I'll pitch forever : a great baseball player tells the hilarious story behind the legend / by Leroy (Satchel) Paige, as told to David Lipman ; introduction by John B. Holway ; afterword by David Lipman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982.

Contributor:

Lipman, David, 1931-2008.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982.

Paige, Satchel.

Baseball players--United States--Biography.

Baseball players.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Maybe I will pitch forever.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1993]

Summary:

Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For twenty-two years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled throngs with his performance in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Then he outlasted everyone by playing professional baseball, in and out of the majors, until 1965. Struggle- against early poverty and racial discrimination- was part of Paige's story. So was fast living and a humorous point of view. His immortal advice was "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."

Notes:

"A Bison book."

ISBN:

0803237022

0803287321

OCLC:

26852880