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1960 • Baseball Clip • Jackie Robinson & Satchel Paige - Radio Interview · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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  The word fabulous is perhaps one of the most overworked adjectives in the English language.
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  However, I cannot think of a better way to announce today's guest without reverting to the phrase.
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  My guest today will be the fabulous Satchel Paige.
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  I'll begin interviewing my old friend right after we hear this important message.
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  We played a ball game in Kansas City, Satch. You were driving your car. We left Kansas City Sunday night.
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  Rode on that bus from Sunday night until Tuesday morning, got into Philadelphia, played a twilight doubleheader.
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  How is it that you were able to perform day in and day out, living under the conditions that you were?
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  Well, Jack, it's the only thing I can see that when we was back playing like that, we used to ride with our knees up on our chin,
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  and four and five hundred miles, and we couldn't eat correctly at times.
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  And then we'd get out and didn't have time to stretch and jump on maybe one of the best clubs in Philly,
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  and it'd be a one or two-nothing game. And we'd done that for years, not only just one year.
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  That's the way we did until you got into majors.
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  What is the most important thing for a man to be successful?
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  I remember the great stories that they told about Satchel Pais.
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  You used to walk three men just to get a Jice Gibson to challenge the greatest hitter, I think, that baseball has produced.
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  This guy was fantastic, in my opinion. What was the challenge? Is it just a personal thing between you and Jice?
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  Yes, we was playing in Puerto Rico, and I was playing against Jice. I was playing with Sinclair, and he was playing with Sinclar.
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  And I'd beat him that day, and he told me one of these days his family was going to be at the baseball park,
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  and Gus Greenlee, and a whole lot of the big, big people was in pitch play, and that he was going to hit me with a fence and so.
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  I got by the Kansas City Monarchs, and he still was with the Grays, and so we'd come up there to play him.
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  And it was two out, so I walked the bases to get to Jice, and then I walked up and told him, I said, here's the chance.
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  What happened?
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  I threw him three balls. I threw him two fast balls and one curve ball.
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  And he sat down, huh?
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  Yeah.
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  Well, that's the kind of arm. How is it that your arm is able to stand up under these pressures?
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  You, because you were the drawing card in the Negro league, you would go in and pitch two, three, four innings every day,
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  or else the people wouldn't come out. How is it if your arm stood up? Do you diet?
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  I see. Does that help you stand out? Or can you eat anything you want, or are you picky with your food?
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  Well, I got to be picky because I have a gastric stomach. I've been at it.
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  Oh, what do you do? I've got a stomach that's causing me some trouble. Maybe I can get an idea of what I can do for mine.
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  Well, I started picking goat milk, and it helped me a lot.
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  Goat milk?
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Well, let's just see. Maybe I'll tell my wife about this. Maybe she'll bring me some goat milk and see if that'll help my stomach.
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  So that's thanks a lot for being with us, and good luck with your career.
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  And you're welcome.
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  And that just about does it for now, fans. See you soon.