In 1965, at the age of 22, Gordon Loveless — now of Layton — stood at the plate at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage, Alaska, looking the 60½ feet to the pitcher’s mound, waiting for the great Satchel ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Investigators say a fire that destroyed the former Kansas City home of baseball legend Satchel Paige might have been arson. The Kansas City Star reports investigators found ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 25, 1965. Satchel Paige, at age 59, became the oldest player in MLB history. He was hired for just one game. He pitched three innings for the Kansas City Athletics ...

With a professional baseball career spanning the jazz age to the space age, pitcher Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige (1906—1982) established himself not only as one of the most dominant American athletes ...

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The San Francisco Giants had an incredible opportunity on Thursday night, playing at Rickwood Field to honor the Negro League. With all-time great Giants star Willie Mays passing away earlier in the ...

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KCTV's Mark Poulose and Katie Maher preview a big college football weekend and discuss the latest offseason news for the Kansas City Royals. After leading Major League Baseball in hits in consecutive ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The heroes have arrived! Six 9-foot-tall bronze statues of Port City natives -- and Baseball Hall of Famers Satchel Paige, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams, Hank Aaron, Ozzie Smith ...

The late 1900s. What a time it was. Ancient curses held remarkable staying power. Chicks dug the long ball. The Montreal Expos were a thing. Nobody’d ever heard of a sweeper or a splinker. Elly De La ...