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By the end of his career, Paige could no longer blow his fastball by batters, and so he turned to guile. The Talk story describes his methods: “Sometimes he winds up fast and throws slow and sometimes he winds up slow and throws fast. Sidearm, underhand, overhand.”
Paige was smart and adapted to what his abilities granted him. Many athletes don't do this and fizzle out a year or two years prior to what they could have, if they had adjusted their game. The smart ones adjust, the dumb ones fizzle.
tonycarolina · 4829 days ago · link ·
I think its safe too say baseball as a culture was vastly different during the Paige era. If players of that time had assess to modern day nutrition and training methods. Who knows, what type of records and numbers would have been set.
tonycarolina · 4829 days ago · link ·
This is a classic example of a great story just kinda" lost" to time. Would love to see some type of motion picture based on these events.
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thenewgreen · 4829 days ago · link ·
- Paige reportedly sat in a rocking chair between innings while being attended to by a nurse—and partly as a way of honoring Paige and the legacy of the Negro Leagues. It was his last game in the majors, but the ageless Paige was not quite done with baseball. He pitched a game the next year, in the Carolina League, then a year later, for a team in Alaska.