Satchel Paige

Lesa Cline-Ransome (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback - Biography / Sport / Baseball - 2005)

This book examines the life of the legendary baseball player, who was the first African-American to pitch in a Major League World Series. Some say Leroy Paige was born six feet three and a half inches tall, 180 pounds, wearing a size fourteen shoe. Not a bit of truth to it. So begins this unaffected biography of the first African-American pitcher to play major league baseball and the first black Baseball Hall of Fame inductee. Written with a storyteller sense of rhythm and pacing, Paige history will be best appreciated as a read-aloud. (40 pgs) Ages 5-10