Biography:

Professional baseball player. Born– July 7, 1906, Mobile. Played baseball with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts (1927?), Birmingham Black Barons, New Orleans Black Pelicans, Pittsburgh Crawford Giants until 1948; winter ball in Latin America, 1935-1941. Signed with the Cleveland Indians, 1948; Kansas City Monarchs, 1950; St. Louis Browns, 1951. Voted most valuable relief pitcher for the Browns in 1951, 1952, and 1953. Statistics; won 23 games, last 4 in 1933; pitched 29 games in 29 days, 1934; winning streaks of 21 games and 62 scoreless innings. Named to Baseball Hall of Fame, 1971, Nickname for shoe size (14), “Satchel Foot”, shortened to “Satch”.  Died June 8, 1982.

Source:

Webster’s American Biographies, Current Biography 1952 and 1982; and Reader’s Digest, June, 1949.

Publication(s):

Pitchin’ Man. Cleveland s.n., 1948.

Joint_Publication(s):

Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1962.