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subnuclear

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Friday Photo
« on: March 25, 2011, 03:33:52 pm »
My co-worker showed me some photos of Satchel Paige, one of which he is wearing a 1965-era Astros uni. No story with it, but I thought it was cool.

http://90feetofperfection.com/2011/03/23/its-a-satchel-paige-kinda-day/
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2011, 04:40:48 pm »
I bet there is cool story to go with it. He looks like someone might have been gaining on him.
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2011, 04:44:12 pm »
That's really cool.  I don't think I've ever seen a uniform that just said "STROS" on the front.  Was that not an actual uniform or is there just an unexplained gap in my knowledge?
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2011, 04:48:46 pm »
i think the A is folded under and not visible.
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2011, 02:20:33 pm »
Quote from: geezerdonk on March 25, 2011, 04:40:48 pm
I bet there is cool story to go with it. He looks like someone might have been gaining on him.

There's a mention in the comments on that page of an old-timers game in Houston in '65 that may have been the occasion for this photo. Very cool.
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2011, 04:37:05 pm »
That's awesome!
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 03:29:07 pm »
Wasn't there something about Page being signed late in life for an MLB team so that he could qualify for a pension?  Was that the Stros?

[Edited to answer my own question]

No, it wasn't.  Kansas City:

"Paige's last hurrah as a pitcher occurred in 1965. He had applied for a pension from major league baseball that year and discovered that he lacked only three innings of work to qualify for the pension. Paige was granted the chance to work his last three innings with the Kansas City Athletics, owned by Charlie Finley. At the age of 59 he took the mound and shut out the Boston Red Sox through the required three innings. As he left the field, the lights went out and the crowd lit 9000 matches and sang songs to him. It was a fitting epilogue to a long and varied career."

From some random website.



Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/satchel-paige#ixzz1HvcMKvxI
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2011, 03:44:12 pm »
Left a voicemail with the director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum asking if he could point me in the direction of someone who might be able to fill us in on the backstory regarding this photo.  I'll let y'all know if I'm able to figure anything out about it.
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Re: Friday Photo
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2011, 03:58:10 pm »
The last picture on that page has him as a "Pitching Coach" for the Braves in 1969.  If you follow the link to the other page there is a story about him sneaking into an exhibition game.
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