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BUCK O'NEIL ON SATCHEL PAIGE
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`Some people argued that the pace of integration was too fast. Let
me tell you something: Integration would have been too damn slow in
arriving even if it had happened right after the Civil War. That's
how we all felt. Maybe that's why, when it did happen, a hundred
years too late, there were some nitpickers among us who thought
players other than Jackie (Robinson) should have been the first.
"As for Satchel (Paige), who for many whites was the only black
ballplayer they knew of, I know he was kind of upset that he wasn't
the one, and that opens up an interesting subject. . . .When the ...
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