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	<description>A blog about Larry&#039;s new book &#34;Satchel&#34; as well as his other books.</description>
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		<title>Satchel Paige and Babe Ruth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did Satchel Paige pitch to Babe Ruth? This was one of the questions I pursued while researching my book. Here is what I found.
Satchel said he did meet up with a barnstorming team assembled by Babe on a warm night in Los Angles in 1930 or thereabouts, and struck out an inconceivable twenty-two of them, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/05/21/satchel-paige-and-babe-ruth-2/</link>
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		<title>Satchel Paige in Atlanta: Still Brilliant at Sixty Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During my current tour through Atlanta, Mobile, Birmingham and Anniston, I have had a chance to reflect on Satchel Paige&#8217;s career, from his start in Mobile to his later days in Atlanta.  
A few days ago, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published an opinion piece I wrote about Satchel Paige&#8217;s tenure as pitcher-coach-trainer and all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/05/18/satchel-paige-in-atlanta-still-brilliant-at-sixty-two/</link>
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		<title>Before Jackie: How Strikeout King Satchel Paige Struck Down Jim Crow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satchel Paige was pitching in the Negro Leagues in California when he got the news he had been anticipating for two decades. Brooklyn Dodgers President Branch Rickey had just signed a Negro to a big-league contract. The first Negro in modern times. Word tore through America’s clubhouses and grandstands that October afternoon in 1945: a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/03/11/before-jackie-how-strikeout-king-satchel-paige-struck-down-jim-crow/</link>
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		<title>1930s Pittsburgh, Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gus Greenlee, owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords and a notorious racketeer, sought rectitude on a baseball diamond. He had played ball growing up in the South, and in Pittsburgh he had heard about the ragtag collection of black and white teenagers gathering under the banner of the Crawfords, a name taken from a bath house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/02/28/1930s-pittsburgh-josh-gibson-and-satchel-paige/</link>
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		<title>A Poet and Baseball: E. Ethelbert Miller’s “The Fifth Inning”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baseball inspires poetry, as true fans of both well know. Jack Buck showed us that. So did Ogden Nash, Garrison Keillor and Grantland Rice.
Now comes E. Ethelbert Miller with The Fifth Inning. A poet, essayist, memoirist and literary activist, Miller reflects, as he nears 60, on life, relationships and loss in this, his second memoir, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/02/15/a-poet-and-baseball-e-ethelbert-miller%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cthe-fifth-inning%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>A Punishing Schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nobody ever will break Satchel Paige's Major League record for longevity, set in 1965 when he suited up for the Kansas City A's at the over-the-hill age of 59 years, two months and eight days. How did he do? Three innings of one-hit, shutout ball against the hard-hitting Boston Red Sox.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/02/03/a-punishing-schedule/</link>
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		<title>The Real World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about writing books is getting to spread the story about Satchel Paige face to face to live audiences.
This past week I did two talks that spanned the age spectrum. The first was the Society of American Baseball Researchers (SABR) winter event, where I appeared with former Red Sox pitcher Bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/01/23/the-real-world/</link>
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		<title>A Tribute to Silas Simmons, b. 1895 &#8211; d. 2006: Everlasting Fan of the Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To write a biography of Satchel Paige, whose career lasted longer than any player before or since, eyewitness accounts were critical. I talked with 200 former Negro Leaguers and Major Leaguers who played with or against Satchel. One of the most extraordinary was Silas Simmons, a veteran of the early Negro Leagues whom I met [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/01/16/a-tribute-to-silas-simmons-b-1895-d-2006-everlasting-fan-of-the-game/</link>
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		<title>Bob Feller and Satchel Paige</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bob Feller was as hard-nosed and straight-shooting when he opened his mouth as when he unleashed his fastball. He knew brilliant pitching when he saw it, saw it in Satchel Paige, and let the world know. He also wanted to be the richest player in baseball, and luckily for Satchel and other Negro Leaguers, that included organizing a barnstorming tour between Feller's all-white All-Stars and Satchel's all-black team. That tour helped make the case that the best of black baseball was the equal of the best of white, and it set the stage for Branch Rickey's breakthrough signing of Jackie Robinson in 1947.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2010/01/03/bob-feller-and-satchel-paige/</link>
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		<title>A Tribute to Lester Rodney, 1911 &#8211; 2009: Advocate for Ending Segregation of Baseball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He was not a welcome ally to many in America’s Civil Rights movement of the early 1900s, but none could deny the attention-getting power of Lester Rodney, the hot-blooded young sports editor of the paper published by the Communist Party USA.
The Daily Worker had always had in its crosshairs that era’s Jim Crow system of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.larrytye.com/2009/12/29/a-tribute-to-lester-rodney-1911-2009-advocate-for-ending-segregation-of-baseball/</link>
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