Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige in a baseball field ready to pitch, Los Angeles, circa 1933

Title: Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige in a baseball field ready to pitch, Los Angeles, circa 1933
Date Created: [circa 1933]
Date: 1933
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: English
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Famed baseball pitcher Satchel Paige with his arms raised about to pitch. A sign on the fence in the background reads: "New, Clean Grade-Marked Lumber, $1800 per 1000 ft., Owens-parks Lumber Co., 2100 E. 38th St., 5 blocks East" which is a Los Angeles address. The location may be Thomas Jefferson High School at Hopner and 41st St.
Leroy "Satchel" Paige, was a sucessful player in the Negro Leagues from 1926-1947 before he signed with the Cleveland Indians as the second African American player in the majors.
Caption: This photograph (cropped) appears in the Los Angeles Times article: "He's Just a Big Man From the South; It's 'Satchel Paige Day' at White Sox Ball Park Today," 11/12/1933. According to article, Satchel Paige was playing with the Royal Giants during the winter of 1933.
Text from negative sleeve: Paige, Satchel. baseball. Nitrate
Handwritten on negative: Satchel Paige

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_0029
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d9710
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