Satchel Paige and Company Essays on the Kansas City Nonarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues

Though Satchel Paige lived into the early 1980s, much of our information about his life and especially his career is the stuff of anecdote. He is nevertheless a central figure'arguably the central figure'in our reconstructions of Negro Leagues history. This collection of papers from the 9th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference focuses on the celebrity of Satchel Paige and the team he is most closely associated with, the Kansas City Monarchs. Accounts of Paige's exploits are scrutinized and the effects of his fame, on both the contemporary perception of black baseball and its depiction in the years since, are discussed.Heaphy, Leslie A. is the author of 'Satchel Paige and Company Essays on the Kansas City Nonarchs, Their Greatest Star and the Negro Leagues', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786430758 and ISBN 0786430753.