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Satchel Paige
Satchel Paige (Leroy Paige) , 1906-82, American baseball player, b. Mobile, Ala. Celebrated for his wit and extraordinary pitching ability, he became legendary while barnstorming in the Negro baseball leagues prior to the integration (1947) of the major leagues. He played in as many as 2,500 games... Read more
baseball
baseball bat-and-ball sport known as the national pastime of the United States. It derives its name from the four bases that form a diamond (the infield) around the pitcher's mound. Basic Rules Teams consist of nine players who use a leather-covered hard ball, a wooden (in the professiona... Read more

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Satchel Paige
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Satchel Paige Long before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier of "organized baseball, " Satchel Paige (1906-1982) was a name well known to...outstanding performer in "Negro baseball, " Paige had become a legendary figure whose encounters...
Henry Tompkins Paige Comstock
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Henry Tompkins Paige Comstock Henry Tompkins Paige Comstock (1820-1870) was aflamboyant American gold prospector whose name is attached to one of the world's most productive mining districts, the Comstock Lode. Henry Comstock was born in...
Radcliffe, Ted
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...legendary pitcher and sometime teammate Satchel Paige. He learned to control his pitches by...Radcliffe joined hometown friend, Paige, on the better-paying Pittsburgh Crawfords...While writer Damon Runyon came to see Paige, he left impressed with Radcliffe's...
Baseball
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...Mid-western cities. The Negro leagues fielded some excellent players, including Satchel Paige, Ray Dandridge, and John Henry "Pop" Lloyd. Paige was so devastating as a pitcher that he would often call his outfielders in and have them sit...
O'Neil, Buck
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...to the West team of the East-West All-Star Classic in 1942, 1943, and 1949 and was a member of Satchel Paige's All Stars. Paige's team, made up of Negro League stars, played a team of white major league players known as Bob Feller...
Shame Woman, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...as a “shame woman.” She has lived in an isolated cabin with only her adopted daughter, Lily ( Thelma Paige), for company. Lonely and heartsick, she has never had the courage to tell Lily of her past or to warn her not to wander...
Pajama Game, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...Bissell (book), Richard Adler, Jerry Ross (music, lyrics). [ St. James Theatre , 1,063 perf.] Babe Williams ( Janis Paige), head of the union grievance committee at the Sleep‐Tite Pajama Factory, refuses to date the factory's new...
Josh Gibson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Gibson) 1911-47, American baseball player, b. Buena Vista, Ga. A catcher and the long-time batterymate of Satchel Paige , Gibson was called "the Babe Ruth of the Negro Leagues." Playing 17 years for the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead...
Lacy, Sam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...suggested that Griffith's last-place team could be turned around by an infusion of new talent from the Negro Leagues: Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, and Josh Gibson were suggested to the owner. Lacy told Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News about...
Killing Fields
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Silkworm Books. Schanberg, Sidney. 1980. The Death and Life of Dith Pran . New York: Penguin. Shawcross, William. 1979. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia . New York: Simon & Schuster. Paige Johnson Tan

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Le Paige, Constantin
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Le Paige, Constantin ( b . Li è ge, Belgium, 9 March...Li è ge, 26 January 1929), mathematics . Le Paige, the son of Jeanne Jacques and Constantin Marie Le Paige, received his secondary education at Spa and Li è...
Cambridge
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of God upon the Land: Smallpox in Colonial Cambridge." New England Quarterly 74 (September 2001): 495 – 507. Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630 – 1877. Boston: Houghton, 1877. Rev. ed. 1930. Jennifer...
Howard, Ron
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Southern California and Los Angeles Valley College. Family: Married Cheryl Alley, 7 June 1975; children: Bryce Dallas, Paige Carlyle, Jocelyn Carlyle, Reed. Career: First appeared on the Lassie TV series at age one; appeared in TV series beginning...
Flynn, Errol
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...as Maj. Geoffrey Vickers); Pirate Party on Catalina Island (short) 1937 The Green Light (Borzage) (as Dr. Newell Paige); The Prince and the Pauper (Keighley) (as Miles Hendon); Another Dawn (Dieterle) (as Capt. Denny Roark); The Perfect...
Leigh, Janet
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Dishonorable (Panama and Frank) (as Isabelle Dempsey); Angels in the Outfield (Angels and the Pirates ) (Brown) (as Jennifer Paige); Two Tickets to Broadway (Kern) (as Nancy Peterson); It's a Big Country (Charles Vidor and others) (as Rose Szabo...
Coffee
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...and Nina Luttinger. The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry from the Crop to the Last Drop. New York: New Press, 1999. Paige, Jeffry, Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...
Bryan, Kirk
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...established in the literature of landscape evolution, although Bryan adapted the term from a 1912 report on desert surfaces by Sidney Paige. Bryan envisaged the pediment as a slope of transportation veneered with a few inches or a few feet of debris in transit...
Cat People
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Cinema Journal (Austin, Texas), vol. 33, no. 1, Fall 1993. Télérama (Paris), 24 May 1997. Rohrer Paige, Linda, "The Transformation of Woman: The 'Curse' of the Cat Woman in Val Lewton/Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, its...
Powell, Eleanor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Collins); Broadway Melody of 1936 (Del Ruth) (as Irene Foster/Mlle. Arlette) 1936 Born to Dance (Del Ruth) (as Nora Paige) 1937 Broadway Melody of 1938 (Del Ruth) (as Sally Lee); Rosalie (Van Dyke) (title role) 1939 Honolulu (Buzzell...
Cross, Charles Whitman
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the Petrologists ’ Club (organized 1910) along with Bancroft, Bastin, Johannsen, Knopf, Larsen, Lindgren, Paige, and Schaller, among others. The organizational meeting and numerous successive meetings, at which many major petrological...

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PAIGE IN HISTORY IS CHAPTER FOR CORPS
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 6/19/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...down that easy. Retired Colonel Mitchell Paige, the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient...recruiting station was 200 miles away, said Paige. I took my lunch and began walking. After...Webb -- no one on Earth could whoop him, Paige said as his face wrinkled with a smile...
Paige to File Countersuit to Defend Intellectual Property Rights of FlatPlug(R) Product.
Business Wire; 9/25/1996; 700+ words ; TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 1996--PAIGE INNOVATIONS (TSE:PAG) Paige Innovations Inc. ("Paige Innovations") announced today that it was informed that a lawsuit has been filed against...
PAIGE DENIM FACES LEGAL FIGHT.
Magazine article from: WWD; 10/5/2006; ; 700+ words ; Byline: Rachel Brown Swimwear designer Ashley Paige and jeans company Paige Premium Denim are in a legal battle over rights to the Paige name. Ashley Paige filed a lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court, Central...
Paige signs agreements with Kawasaki and Mitsui.
Business Wire; 12/20/1996; 700+ words ; ...TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1996--PAG (TSE PAG.) Paige Innovations Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Paige Manufacturing Corp. ("Paige Manufacturing"), has entered into a licence agreement with Kawasaki...
PAIGE STAND ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IRONIC.(Editorial)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 2/2/2003; 700+ words ; ...on the job, Secretary of Education Rod Paige has been 100 percent loyal to President...that loyalty? The answer is not much. Paige does not have enough clout within the president...officials who have the president's ear - Paige, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National...
Paige Team Tries to Quiet Controversy
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/14/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...attention to a transcript showing Secretary Rod Paige's views on Christianity in schools were not...The Baptist Press, which first published the Paige quotes, said its story accurately portrayed Paige's faith in God but contained factual and...
Paige's religious preference: education secretary's promotion of christian schooling gets bad grades from civil liberties boosters.
Magazine article from: Church & State; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; When it comes to education, Rod Paige, the nation's top school official...In an interview with Baptist Press, Paige, the U.S. secretary of education...greater than them personally." Secretary Paige also suggested in the interview that the...
PAIGE BREAKING UMASS RECORDS IN TRACK, SOCCER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...competitors hit the brakes there. When Mike Paige is in that situation, he steps on the...Other kids back off," said George Davis, Paige's track coach at the University of Massachusetts...and always gets to it." These days, Paige, a senior, runs the safer anchor leg...
Paige Defined by No Child Left Behind Act
News Wire article from: AP Online; 11/16/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Dateline: WASHINGTON Education Secretary Rod Paige, is interviewed by the Associated Press...Washington in this April 6, 2004 file photo. Paige, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Agriculture...Photo/Lawrence Jackson, Files) Rod Paige's tenure as education secretary was defined...
Paige Manufacturing Terminates Exclusive Agreement With Pacific Electricord Company for Distribution of FlatPlug(R) Products.
Business Wire; 8/30/1996; 700+ words ; ...TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 1996--PAIGE INNOVATION INC. (TSE:PAG) Mr. Alberto de Sousa Costa, President and CEO of Paige Innovations Inc. ("Paige") and its subsidiary Paige Manufacturing Corp...