Satchel Paige’s Song

B-R blog:

Reader Howard Pearlman wrote in this weekend and told us that he sings a song about the great Satchel Paige called “Never Look Back“, so I thought I’d give him a link today. Because anytime someone pays tribute to Satchel, I think it brings joy to true baseball fans everywhere.

Card Corner: Satchel Paige

Markusen:

With apologies to the chronically underrated Smokey Joe Williams, the consensus of baseball historians makes Leroy “Satchel” Paige the greatest pitcher in the history of the Negro Leagues. He might have been the most eccentric, too, with a list of quirks and quotations that could fill stacks of notebooks. …