21 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Satchel Paige. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Satchel Paige, often where they are interviewed.
21 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Satchel Paige. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Satchel Paige, often where they are interviewed.
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08/07/2020
I was on vacation last week and was going to take a week off but I have been stewing about this subject for a while. Since this show is called How I Got That Way sometimes I am going to give you glimpses whether you like it or not. I am taking a stab at explaining and dissecting the idea of American exceptionalism this week. I see it as a not small part of our national malaise. Let me know what you think at imjpodcast@gmail.com
Thanks for joining the second and final part of the Satchel Paige story. When we left off in part one, Paige was entering his prime as one of the baseball’s best pitchers.
Now his career and charisma will take him to even greater heights than he could have ever imagined. Including playing a significant role in what once seemed unlikely, but will become a reality during his career, the integration of baseball.
Many of us have heard of Cy Young, whose immortalized name adorns the award given to the best pitchers each year in Major League Baseball. When we debate who’s the greatest pitcher of all time, we hear names like Young, Nolan Ryan, Walter Johnson and others.
What many might not know is that if baseball had been integrated twenty years sooner than it was in 1947 by the immortal Jackie Robinson, it is not out of the question that the Cy Young award might today be named the Satchel Paige award and there would be plenty arguing for his name to be included in, or at the very top of, the list of the greatest pitchers. As talented as he was with the ball, he was an equally talented showman and personality who did more than most to help bring about baseball’s long overdue integration.
Our maiden voyage: Harry tells the story of one of the greatest pitchers of all time, and the oldest player in MLB history...Satchel Paige
---Kansas City Monarchs player/manager John "Buck" O'Neil chats about hanging out with some of the greatest entertainers of the Negro League era including: Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Lena Horne, Moms Mabley and Charlie Parker. Get a glimpse of a young Charlie Pride who played on the Memphis Red Sox team before becoming a Country Music legend! Also great strories about Satchel Paige and Jackie Robinson. Enjoy and PLAY BALL!