Satchel Paige vs. Jim Crow
Aug 09, 2021
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Episode description
Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1971, the second Monday in August, Satchel Paige was the first Negro League player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But he wasn’t the first Black American athlete inducted into the Hall of Fame. Why then was he inducted? What were the Negro Leagues, and why did they …
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