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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...
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...
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...
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
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...
Bob Feller
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...fastball. "If anybody threw that ball harder than Rapid Robert, then the human eye couldn't follow it," said pitcher Satchel Paige. Teenage Sensation Bob Feller was born on November 3, 1918 in Van Meter, Iowa. He grew up on a farm with his hard-working...
Content Provider
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce ...Online Content Providers Offer Information from a Variety of Sources." InformationWeek. February 26, 2001. Albiniak, Paige. "Do Not Pass Go." Broadcasting & Cable. November 6, 2000. Cholewka, Kathleen. "Opting into the Wireless Web...
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...

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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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 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 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...
Satchel Paige's America.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; Satchel Paige's America. By William Price Fox. (Tuscaloosa...claimed that Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige had "the greatest stuff I ever saw...comments as well. The lanky, rubber-armed Paige arguably was the greatest Negro League pitcher...
Paige defends pro-Christian comments; News conference: Education secretary says he was not trying to impose religious views on other people
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 4/10/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Rod Paige on Wednesday stood by his comments favoring...At a hastily called news conference, Paige told reporters, "I understand completely...the Anti- Defamation League, seized on Paige's comments in a story run by the Baptist...
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...
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 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's love of life has helped her heal quickly; Brain bug baby could go home to mum next month.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 12/31/2002; 700+ words ; ...BROWN EXCLUSIVE LITTLE meningitis victim Paige Allan could be home within a month. Her...had predicted. Fourteen-month-old Paige had her feet and hands amputated five days...making her heal so well." It was feared Paige might have to have further amputations...
USMC: Paige in history is chapter for corps
M2 Presswire; 6/24/1998; 700+ words ; M2 PRESSWIRE-24 June 1998-USMC: Paige in history is chapter for corps (C)1994...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...