Mobile Tigers
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates The Mobile Tigers was a semi-professional baseball team composed entirely[1] of African-American players based in Mobile, Alabama. It was one of several Black baseball teams based in Mobile during the same period and was a training ground for at least three players who later joined the Negro leagues.[2]
Significant players
Shortly after leaving a reform school in Mount Meigs, Alabama, Satchel Paige started his career with Mobile at age 18.[3][4][5][6] The employed Paige had been job hunting but in his spare time enjoyed watching his older brother Wilson playing for this team. Presenting himself in a try out to Candy Jim Taylor, the Mobile Tigers's manager at that time, Paige fired ten fastballs past Taylor. After ten pitches and ten strikes, Paige got a job with the Tigers in 1924.[1][7] According to Paige, Mobile paid him "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't."[8]
According to a sports writer for the Birmingham-Pittsburg Traveller, Paige's position pitching for the semi-pro Mobile Tigers was the launching pad for "one of the most successful careers in baseball history."[9] After playing for the Mobile Tigers for one year, Paige began his professional baseball career with the Chattanooga White Sox of the Negro Southern League.[1][10]
Future Negro league stars Ted Radcliffe (as well as his brother Forney) and Bobby Robinson also played on the Mobile Tigers at the same time as Paige.[2][11]
References
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- ↑ a b c [1]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Stories of Children, "Snatching A Moment with Satch"
- ↑ a b [2] Template:Webarchive Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe: 36 Years of Pitching & Catching in Baseball's Negro Leagues
- ↑ [3] Satchel Paige Stats and Awards
- ↑ [4] Major League Baseball: Negro Leagues Legacy
- ↑ [5]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The African American Registry
- ↑ [6] James A. Riley, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1994 (Negro Leagues Baseball Museum at Kansas State University College of Education)
- ↑ [7] Template:Webarchive New York Times (June 8, 1982) Obituary of Satchel Paige at the Negro League Baseball Players Association
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- ↑ [8] Birmingham-Pittsburg Traveller(kenyon.edu)
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- ↑ [9] Bobby Robinson Wood Sign
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