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Larry Tye packs a lot of baseball and a lot of pain between the covers of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend. He portrays one of the greatest baseball talents in history, who was forced by Major League baseball's segregation to work in relative obscurity during his prime performance years. In Paige's early 40s, Bill Veeck game him the opportunity to pitch for the Cleveland Indians, whom he helped lead to a World Series championship in 1948. The book also provides a sad, but not bitter, picture of Jim Crow and widespread discrimination against blacks in the North as well. This is an excellent book for baseball fans, but not only for baseball fans. You will like it if you are interested in American history for the fist half of the 20th century, and especially African-Americans' struggle for justice and equality. It will help you understand people as diverse as Martin Luther King, Jr. and LBJ to Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
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Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend by Larry Tye
hughryan, August 10, 2009
Larry Tye packs a lot of baseball and a lot of pain between the covers of Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend. He portrays one of the greatest baseball talents in history, who was forced by Major League baseball's segregation to work in relative obscurity during his prime performance years. In Paige's early 40s, Bill Veeck game him the opportunity to pitch for the Cleveland Indians, whom he helped lead to a World Series championship in 1948. The book also provides a sad, but not bitter, picture of Jim Crow and widespread discrimination against blacks in the North as well. This is an excellent book for baseball fans, but not only for baseball fans. You will like it if you are interested in American history for the fist half of the 20th century, and especially African-Americans' struggle for justice and equality. It will help you understand people as diverse as Martin Luther King, Jr. and LBJ to Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.