Photos, illustrations, and information on Leroy Robert Paige, nicknamed Satchel Paige (1904-1982) for his early bag-carrying job at Union Station. Description of his life and career as a native of Alabama coming to Kansas City as a baseball pitcher around the late 1920s, residing at 2626 East 28th Street and joining the Kansas City Monarchs, then inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971. Also namesake of the Satchel Paige Stadium for amateur baseball at 51st and Swope Parkways in 1982, just before his death.