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Satchel Paige's America. By William Price Fox. (Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 2005. Pp. 142. $16.95.)

Pitching great Dizzy Dean once claimed that Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige had "the greatest stuff I ever saw," and New York Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio was as generous in his comments as well. The lanky, rubber-armed Paige arguably was the greatest Negro League pitcher ever, winning, by his own account, some two thousand of the twenty-five hundred games he hurled in a career that spanned the mid-1920s through the mid-1960s. In 1948, at the age ...

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