Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 507

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BASEBALL.) PAIGE, SATCHEL. Press photograph of Satchel Paige making his American League debut. 8 x 10 glossy photograph from the files of I.N.S. (International News Service) with file stamp. Np, 13 July 1948

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Leroy Robert Satchel Paige (1906-1982) was an African American baseball giant whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, the first player to be inducted based upon his play in the Negro leagues.