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Leroy “Satchel” Paige is that rare American icon who has never before been captured in a biography worthy of him. Satchel is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a “shuffling” stereotype to disarm critics and racists, who comically invented facts--including his own age--to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and, in the process, methodically built his own myth. More than a saga of a baseball odyssey, this book rewrites our history of the integration of the sport, with Satchel Paige in a starring role. Larry Tye was a prizewinning journalist at the Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. An avid baseball fan, Tye now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists, and is the author of several books.