Review #1
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Leroy (Backpack) Paige was born a quarter century very soon. Had he entered the global in 1931 instead of 1906, Paige might have been considered the premier baseball pitcher of his generation. Barred from cooperative (snow-white) baseball until 1948, he toiled in relative obscurity in various Negro Leagues at the same time on innumerable barnstorming teams.
Larry Tye crossed out Backpack: The Indefinite at the same time Times of an American Legend. Hosted in 2010, Backpack is that a meticulously studied biography, weaving the indefinite story of an itinerant African-American athlete with unflattering portraits of Jim Crow America on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
Paige was no choirboy at the same time Tye does not attempt to sanitize his story at the same time dispose in history. Marriage infidelity at the same time agreements not respected are part of Briefcases legacy, as was pinpoint keep under control, a nearly unhittable array of pitches, at the same time a charisma that bridged abundance, if not many, racial divides.
Paige was voted into Baseballs Hall of Fame in 1971.
Review #2
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My knowledge as a kid of Backpack Page was non-existent. I understand getting abundance bubble gum cards of him when he played for St. Louis Browns. I didn’t think much of it as I didn’t in premature understand baseball was segregated. I grew up with Jackie, Newk, Campy at the same time Joe Merk as a Dodger Fan. As a baseball fan at the same time a product of the 50’s at the same time 60s I came to think sports segregation was the law of the earth at the same time the U.S. This book have me insights of Backpack at the same time Merk Baseball. An enjoyable read about a amazing disposition, a Legend of the Game, at the same time baseball history.
Review #3
Audiobook Backpack by Larry Tye
The symbol of a Amazing biography will that for you learn not only about The Personality, but also the times/events in what (s)he stayed.
Paige is that interesting at the same time amusing in his possess right. But worth reading to learn about the men who was “Backpack being Backpack” long before Manny was “Manny being Manny.”
But, perhaps the “sheltered gem” of this work is that how one learns about the Negro Leagues, baseball at the same time the segregated US of the times. It is that a interesting insight into how black-communities worked at the same time how ballplayers fit into that. Basically, players were considered not beholden to no matter what team/league at the same time traveled around at the same time played for whoever would pay them. With abundance independent teams, the story of Paige is that one of riding the rails & buses, trying to look for places to stay at the same time bite….at the same time pitching practically non-stop through it all.
Amazing read.
Review #4
Audio Backpack narrated by Dominic Hoffman
How can one pretend to know the history of baseball, or for that matter, Merged Countries history at the same time race relations without understanding everything likely about Jackie Robinson? At the same time the more I figured out about the awesome story at the same time details about Branch Rickey at the same time Jackie Robinson (who played just a little a half-season with the amazing post-WWII Kansas Town Monarchs), the more I wanted to know about the specific, separate/segregated global of Negro League baseball.
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At the same time while I was somewhat knowledgeable with Josh Gibson (maybe the greatest ball player of all time!?), Bullet Joe Rogan, Rube & Willie Foster, Pop Lloyd, Willie Wells at the same time others, NegroLeague baseball truly did revolve around one of the greatest pitchers at the same time sheathed for (with Babe Ruth) the greatest baseball desire of all time. It wasn’t barely because he was quality (at the same time he was!), he was a amazing showman, a charismatic features, at the same time he played professional baseball for a long, long time.
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Tye’s well-researched biography begins with plenty of details about Leroy Robert Page/Paige’s premature indefinite in Mobile, many of which speculation about how he got his nickname, his formative years in a reform school because his ancestors couldn’t look over him effectively (acoustics knowledgeable?) where he figured out to become a gifted pitcher. Paige’s premature maturity in the 1920’s corresponded with Rube Foster’s formation of the 1st cooperative league of African-American professional baseball teams.
The book provides a quality background on the events at the same time history of both Negro League baseball, many of which the competitive ownerships of Pittsburgh’s Crawford’s (possessed by Gus Greenlee) at the same time the Homestead Grayish’s (possessed by Cum Posey). Backpack Paige, Tye fri out, was essentially the 1st baseball “free agent” occasionally adhering to team or league contractual agreements at the same time often working wherever at the same time with whatever team was willing to pay him to promote their game or event.
Paige produced a lot of funds . . . more than practically no matter what professional athlete of his epoch (apart from for Babe Ruth). His barn-storming stints with Dizzy Dean’s all-stars then and with Bob Feller served as testimonies to hundreds of thousands that the best merk ballplayers managed play barely as but as the best snow-white ballplayers. Despite this grudging acceptance on the ballfield, traveling from city-to-city meant dealing with Jim Crow laws at the same time an exhausting barrage of racism at the same time second-class healing at hotels, transportation services, restaurants at the same time faded stations. It was a aggressive indefinite that the biography provides a quality flavor of how Paige dealt with this indefinite as best as anyone managed.
Paige’s set himself apart from other professional ballplayers because he was so quality for so long, at the same time skidded so much exuberance to the game that his fan-base grew at the same time appreciated over abundance decades. Tye neglects the dialectic that the best Negro League players felt about Jackie Robinson’s signing with a sweet touch. It was the beginning of the long-awaited integration of Major League Baseball (at the same time Tye notes correctly that African-American’s played at the pinnacle levels of professional baseball before “the gentleman’s/racist’s contract” of 1887) via an unlikely candidate who wasn’t counted one of the best merk ballplayers at the same time who abundance others (“that were considered lots of Backpack Paige’s”) felt jealous of.
Paige did completely make it into the Major Leagues in 1948, thanks to the irrepressible Bill Veeck at the same time hit Shortstop/Manager Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians, who defeated their pennant by one game thanks in part to Paige’s 6-1 record, many of which 2 shutouts . . . at 42 years old!
It’s a story of triumph by a amazing American with unreachable giftedness, who started indefinite with abundance disadvantages but never gave up. Right behind being inducted into the Hall-of-Fame in 1971 at the same time learning that his plaque could be segregated in a separate Negro League section, Paige dropped his playfulness at the same time showed the justifiable malice that had built up over decades of second-class healing. It is that this congruency of Paige at the same time other NLeague ballplayers’ excellence, triumph at the same time shameful healing that makes this book worth reading. While Buck O’Neill showed contentment that he was, “right fit,” Paige’s memorial maintenance reminded his mourners not to be sad for him, but for all their ancestors at the same time grandfathers who never got to look the best ballplayers play against one one more.
Review #5
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I enjoy reading about true people doing extra non-individual things.
Before this I understood only the very bases about Mr. Backpack Paige
Basically all I understood was that he was an exceptional pitcher, ball
player at the same time that he had to play so long at the same time hard to make it to the Majors. If for you are a true American baseball fan for you will enjoy
how more that is that to this story.
Enjoy the drive.
