Satchel Paige: the book
So three years after I started the research, and nearly a year after I finished the writing, my book on Satchel Paige finally is about to be released. Random House’s official publication date is June 9.
I am new to blogging and not sure what anyone visiting this site wants to hear. I will take my cues from you.
Want to know about the process — what it is like researching a book like this, writing it, selling it to a publisher, or going through the endless editing?
Want to know some of the things I found, and some of the people who helped me along the way, from Negro Leaguers to Major Leaguers, SABR folks to other baseball researchers, friends/family of Satchel, and…. ?
Or maybe you’d rather offer up your own takes on Leroy “Satchel” Paige and let my book speak for me.
Once it comes out I will write occasionally about things I am finding as I speak across the country, and things I might have put in the book had I known them earlier. I would love to hear from you on places I should be going and talks I should be giving that my publisher and I didn’t think of. I have endless energy to talk about Satchel, because I remain fascinated by him and the lens he offers into the Negro Leagues, the Jim Crow era, and America itself.
I recently started researching a new book for Random House — a bio of Superman. More about that later.
Bye for now.
Larry
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June 11th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Good morning, Larry Tye.
I just read the online chapter excerpt posted by Random House. You have done a just examination and review of Paige’s life and thought. Your narrative has layers upon layers of research and comes together in a story that matters to a biography and sustains Paige’s achievements.
In 1989, I remember reading in my ninth-grade reader a poem titled “To Satch,” which led me to read more about Leroy Paige. That’s still one of my favorite poems. I look forward to reading your biography in its entirety later this month.
Thank you for capturing Paige’s baseball achievements and music with words. Yours is already a home run for baseball fans and readers.
Cheers!
R. Joseph Rodriguez