| | | Satchel Paige - Dont' Look Back |
Author: Mark Ribowsky
April 2000 · Paperback
Some say he was the greatest pitcher ever -- and certainly his dazzling record of perhaps as many as 2,000 wins, first in the Negro Leagues and then in the integrated major leagues, ranks as one of the most remarkable athletic feats of the century.
Mark Ribowsky gives the best picture yet of life in the Negro Leagues as he brings to life a man whose act as a lovable eccentric with a golden arm masked a decidedly darker side as womanizer, hard drinker, and contract jumper always on the lookout for number one.
Sporting News hailed Don't Look Back as "a fine and perceptive biography...that captures the essence of a complicated and terribly significant person". |  |
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