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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092
Fabric Type: 9781400066513
Fax Number: 1St Edition
Legal Disclaimer: 1400066514
Maximum Color Depth: Random House
Metal Type: Random House
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 416
Total External Bays Free: June 09, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: Random House
Total Parallel Ports: June 09, 2009
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He is that rare American icon who has never been captured in a biography worthy of him. Now, at last, here is the superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige.
Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and Major Leaguers, talking to family and friends who had never told their stories before, and retracing Paige’s steps across the continent. Here is the stirring account of the child born to an Alabama washerwoman with twelve young mouths to feed, the boy who earned the nickname “Satchel” from his enterprising work as a railroad porter, the young man who took up baseball on the streets and in reform school, inventing his trademark hesitation pitch while throwing bricks at rival gang members.
Tye shows Paige barnstorming across America and growing into the superstar hurler of the Negro Leagues, a marvel who set records so eye-popping they seemed like misprints, spent as much money as he made, and left tickets for “Mrs. Paige” that were picked up by a different woman at each game. In unprecedented detail, Tye reveals how Paige, hurt and angry when Jackie Robinson beat him to the Majors, emerged at the age of forty-two to help propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. He threw his last pitch from a big-league mound at an improbable fifty-nine. (“Age is a case of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”)
More than a fascinating account of a baseball odyssey, Satchel rewrites our history of the integration of the sport, with Satchel Paige in a starring role. This is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a shuffling stereotype to disarm critics and racists, floated comical legends about himself–including about his own age–to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and in the process methodically built his own myth. “Don’t look back,” he famously said. “Something might be gaining on you.” Separating the truth from the legend, Satchel is a remarkable accomplishment, as large as this larger-than-life man.
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There are several thorough and quite competent reviews of Satchel that truly provide insight into the book and a peek into its subject. What more can another reviewer add to the 29 predominantly favorable reviews currently presented here? I thought about that as well and still I felt that I could provide at least, a tidbit into why a prospective reader should delve into reading Larry Tye's work.
Being an American history buff, and an avid baseball fan, I had perceptions of Satchel that ... Read More
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Leroy "Satchel" Paige was one of the most colorful and most talented pitchers in baseball history. This is a very well researched and well written book about his life. Larry Tye does a good job of seperating the myths from the facts regarding Satchel. If you are interested in baseball history, you will probably enjoy this book.
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Great item accurately described, fairly priced and quickly shipped. Smooth transaction all the way around.
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Larry Tye's book on Satchel reminds me of a biography of Scott Joplin I once read in that both men were of largely undocumented mythic proportions. Both men were itinerant performers and entertainers who did not garner the attention from the white media until their legends had already been made, forcing historians and biographers who followed to rely on oral history and the scanty references they find in unlikely sources to recreate their lives. In "Satchel: the Life and Times of an American Legend," ... Read More
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If you love baseball and love a good story by a gifted writer, this book will be a huge disappointment. Mr. Tye took what should have been an epic story about a great ballplayer, probably the best pitcher ever, and made him boring. Oh, there are a few funny anecdotes and a few gee whiz stats, but Satchel is buried in Tye's sermon-like prose.
Compare this book with Charles Einstein's "Willie's Time" and you'll see what I mean. It is the epitome of capturing the essence of a ballplayer and ... Read More
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