Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow -|The Center for Cartoon Studies Presents|-

Baseball Hall of Famer Leroy "Satchel" Paige -|1906 - 1982|- changed the face of the game in a career that spanned five decades. Much has been written about this larger-than-life pitcher, but when it comes to Paige, fact does not easily separate from fiction. He made a point of writing his own history . . . and then re-writing it. A tall, lanky fireballer, he was arguably the Negro League|s hardest thrower, most entertaining storyteller and greatest gate attraction. Now the Center for Cartoon Studies turns a graphic novelist|s eye to Paige|s story. Told from the point of view of a sharecropper, this compelling narrative follows Paige from game to game as he travels throughout the segregated South.In stark prose and powerful graphics, author and artist share the story of a sports hero, role model, consummate showman, and era-defining American.