Our 'Baseballer of the Week'
for this week
goes to:
the Big Black Guy, 6-3, 190, who played the
game for five decades and who would ask
the infielders to 'take a break and relax'
while he would strike out all the batters
who faced him, and he was the first Black
pitcher in the American League, and was
59 years old when he 'hung it up,'
additionally, he played in the Negro
League and MLB with pride and
brilliance and won the 1948 World
Series with Black teammate Larry Doby, and
joined the Hall of Fame August 9, 1971,
plus he did a lot more...
...Leroy Robert 'Satchel' Paige!
Black Baseball History Month was
founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.
in 2025 to commemorate, place value,
and get to know, our Heroes, while
standing and cheering for, the many
International Black Men who 'Shocked
and Awed' us with too many to count,
fantastic and unexpected physical
heroics at the Ballpark, in exciting
efforts for their teams to cross home
plate more than their opponents to win.
The Founder of Black Baseball History Month,
Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,
and elucidator of elatus labialis wingeulus.
If you know a Baseballer who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
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