In 1965, at the age of 22, Gordon Loveless — now of Layton — stood at the plate at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage, Alaska, looking the 60½ feet to the pitcher’s mound, waiting for the great Satchel ...

Satchel Paige was 59 years old – or something close to it – when he walked off a Major League mound for the last time. Pitching for the Kansas City A’s on Sept. 25, 1965, the legendary Negro Leagues s ...

Turn back the clock to 1945, and two of baseball's most legendary names, Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige, were teammates on the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. For Robinson it was ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 25, 1965. Satchel Paige, at age 59, became the oldest player in MLB history. He was hired for just one game. He pitched three innings for the Kansas City Athletics ...

If you didn't think Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, and Luke Combs had much in common beyond having played countless stadiums, you may have missed one of the quirkier on-demand Topps baseball card sets of ...

The Banana Ball league, made up of baseball exhibition teams, is adding a team this year that has ties to two of Alabama’s most famous athletes – Hank Aaron and Leroy “Satchel” Paige. The Indianapolis ...

A Pitch From Satchel Paige, the solo play about the life of one of the greatest baseball pitchers of all time, made its New York City debut Monday night to a standing ovation at Carnegie Hall. Check ...

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October 24, 1861, is the last run of the Pony Express from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The mail service to the west ended after just 18 months as the transcontinental telegraph ...