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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.

In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias

and Lysis, compete in the palaestr , journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and

study under Socrates. As their relationship develops,

Renault expertly conveys Greek culture, showing

the impact of this supreme philosopher whose influence spans epochs.