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"We don't stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing." Satchel Paige, Chicago Sun Time, June 5, 2001.
Leroy didn't hit the Majors Leagues as a rookie until the ripe age of 42 because of that old "get off my lawn" racism. Paige pitched 19 seasons in the Negro Leagues throwing 110 complete games over 1,500+ innings for a 2.02 ERA. Roy Halladay nods his head in approval. Paige pitched a sporadic 476 innings in the Majors between 1948 and 1965 with a 3.29 ERA but was rightfully inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.
I could probably write about a Paige quote every day because he was either brilliant or insane. He has a long list of pitches that he named including the four-day creeper, the hurry-up ball and the aspirin. My favorite though is the two-hump blooper because it's how my sex life has been described.
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