Satchel Paige was 59 years old – or something close to it – when he walked off a Major League mound for the last time.

That means local Negro League players will now hold historical MLB records. Players like Mobile Native Satchel Paige. Because of the added data from more than 2,000 players in the Negro Leagues ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Major League Baseball is adding Negro League statistics to its official record book. Historians say although statistics don’t tell the full story of the players who ...

THE BASICS: A PITCH FOR SATCHEL PAIGE, by Jim and Loren Keller ... and ultimately becoming one of the biggest stars in the Negro Leagues where “only the baseball was white.” ...

But the stories of the Negro League are often overlooked, dismissed, or flat-out forgotten. Most people have heard of Robinson. But how many know of Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, or Cool Papa Bell?

Ted Williams and Negro Leagues legends Wilber “Bullet Joe” Rogan and James “Cool Papa” Bell are coming to MLB The Show 25.

Throughout the 1900s before Jackie Robinson broke baseballs color barrier in 1946 black baseball talent blossomed in the Negro Leagues ... in a season and Satchel Paige who pitched over 100 ...