Satchel Paige’s Legend and Legacy, 75 Years After His MLB Debut (ENCORE)

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Negro Leagues’ biggest star, pitcher Satchel Paige, is a figure who at times feels more myth… more legend than man: his fastball was supposedly clocked at 105 mph, he estimated that he threw more than 50 no-hitters throughout his career, and he claimed to have had such a command of the baseball that he could allegedly work both corners of a chewing gum wrapper…and even his age itself is a hotly debated topic still to this day. So today, guest host Justin Tinsley explores the life and legacy of Satchel Paige, a man whose legendary feats may always be debated, but whose impact on the game is without question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We hope you enjoyed your long weekend and I promise we'll be back tomorrow with new episodes.
0:07.4	But for now, we bring you another one of our favorite episodes of the year so far.
0:12.9	It's hosted by Justin Tinsley and it tells a story of Satsal Page who made his MLB debut
0:18.7	75 years ago this summer at the reported age of 42 after years of playing in the Negro
0:25.4	leagues.
0:26.4	In the decade since, the legends and lore surrounding page and his almost mythic career
0:31.7	have only grown, leaving a legacy on the game that endures to this day.
0:36.8	I'm Emily Kaplan.
0:39.0	It's Tuesday, September 5th.
0:41.0	This is ESPN Daily.
0:47.2	When you talk about Satsal Page, you're talking about a figure whose exploits were so mythical
0:52.8	that he felt more like Paul Bungan or John Henry than a real-life picture.
0:57.6	I'm not sure there's another athlete that had as much lore and legend that surrounded him
1:06.3	than the legendary Negro Satsal Page.
1:16.0	A man whose stories feel so outrageous that it can be difficult to separate fact from
1:21.8	fiction.
1:41.2	But Page was a real flesh and blood man.
1:44.5	One who was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1906.
1:48.5	Maybe, I think.
1:51.9	You know what?
1:52.9	I'm not really sure.
1:55.1	No one is actually.
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