Satchel Paige photograph

Date1948 July 07

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Satchel Paige sitting in a chair, wearing a Cleveland Indians jersey. The image caption on the reverse (not shown) reads, "Cleveland, O.: Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, 39-year-old, top-fl[?] Negro pitcher of 20 years standing, donned a Cleveland Indians cap and shirt for photographers in his hotel ro[om] here July 7. Paige, who was signed to the club July 6, came to Cleveland from the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0962

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982

Subject Cleveland Guardians (Baseball team)

Subject Major League Baseball (Organization)

Subject American League of Professional Baseball Clubs

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Duplicate/Alternate CopyBL-781-79; BL-790-79; BL-968-93

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions7 x 9 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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