Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy Satchel Paige (1906 - 1982) changed the
face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been
written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige,
fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing
his own history . . . and then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer,
he was arguably the Negro League's hardest thrower, most entertaining
storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon
Studies turns a graphic novelist's eye to Paige's story. Told from the
point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige
from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South.
In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story
of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining
American.