Feb92016
Satchel Paige (Courtesy of the Ernie Harwell Sports Collection, Detroit Public Library)

Satchel Paige (Courtesy of the Ernie Harwell Sports Collection, Detroit Public Library)

Satchel Paige became the first Negro Leagues star voted into the Hall of Fame, 45 years ago today.

Paige was the first player to be selected by a 10-person committee honoring the contributions of the Negro Leagues to baseball’s history.

Paige may have thrown dozens of no-hitters in barnstorming, semipro and minor league games. But the Negro Leagues no-hitters list compiled by SABR and Noir Tech Research has two entries for Paige:

1 Satchel Paige
  Pittsburgh Crawfords
  Friday, July 8, 1932 (second game of doubleheader)
Pittsburgh Crawfords 6, New York Black Yankees 0
2 Satchel Paige
  Pittsburgh Crawfords
  Wednesday, July 4, 1934
Pittsburgh Crawfords 4, Homestead Grays 0
(Paige struck out 17 batters)
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Author: Dirk Lammers

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.

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