Satchel Paige

CTL-E-5965 · Person · other · 1906–1982

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07201 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5965.

Satchel Paige (Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige, born July 7, 1906, Mobile, Alabama, per his birth certificate; died June 8, 1982, Kansas City) was the Negro leagues' greatest pitcher and its most famous showman, whose major-league chance came two decades late and still made history. He began in the Negro leagues in 1926–27 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts, starred for the Birmingham Black Barons and the Kansas City Monarchs, and barnstormed the country — legend, in his own telling, sometimes sending his infielders to sit down while he struck out the side. On July 9, 1948, Cleveland signed him: at forty-two he became the oldest rookie in major-league history and the first Black pitcher in the American League, going 6–1 with a 2.48 earned run average and becoming the first Negro leagues player to pitch in a World Series, which Cleveland won. He was an All-Star with the St. Louis Browns in 1952 and 1953 and made his final major-league appearance on September 25, 1965, at fifty-nine, throwing three scoreless innings. In 1971 he became the first electee of the Hall of Fame's Negro League Committee inducted at Cooperstown.

The record

• Also known as: Leroy Robert Paige

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Satchel Paige entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5965 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan tail tranche, ranks #751–#1400 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1186). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — the Negro leagues' emblematic pitcher and a Monarch; core scope, closing this packet's Negro leagues arc from the East-West Game (CTL-E-5929). Vital status: DECEASED — died June 8, 1982 (Wikipedia; NLBPA). Tribute treatment in the Curator's Judgment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): MLB debut July 9, 1948, at 42 — oldest rookie in major-league history; 1948 line: 6 wins, 1 loss, 2.48 ERA (Wikipedia; NLBPA). Final appearance September 25, 1965, at 59: three scoreless innings. Hall of Fame 1971, first Negro League Committee electee. AGE DISPUTE SHOWN: Paige's birth year was contested throughout his life — he offered shifting dates, and Bill Veeck's research fixed the birth-certificate date of July 7, 1906 (Baseball-Reference Bullpen), which this record carries while showing the dispute. MEDIA: photo HELD (Satchel Paige portrait, 1948 Cleveland named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5965-satchel-paige.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No audiobook excerpt or author recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Kansas City Monarchs — played for
  Paige starred for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro leagues.

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Satchel Paige" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the July 7, 1906 Mobile birth date, the June 8, 1982 Kansas City death, the Negro leagues chronology, the July 9, 1948 Cleveland debut at 42, the 6–1 / 2.48 line, the Browns All-Star years, the September 25, 1965 finale at 59, and the 1971 Hall of Fame first — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satchel_Paige (primary source · build store)
• National League Baseball Players Association (NLBPA), "Paige, Satchel" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the Negro leagues players' association's own athlete record — https://www.nlbpa.com/the-athletes/paige-satchel.html (primary source · build store)
• Baseball-Reference Bullpen, "Satchel Paige" (accessed 2026-10-16) — the reference's account of Bill Veeck's birth-certificate research into Paige's disputed age, carried in the statistics — https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Satchel_Paige (build store)

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