Existing comment:
Untitled, from the series Baseball
2004 Polaroid Polacolor ER Land Film
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of an anonymous donor 2017.32.50
Known for his fastball, pitcher Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was a force in the Negro Leagues for more than twenty years. Levinthal's photograph shows the figure in a Kansas City Monarchs uniform, which was Paige's last team before the integration of modern era baseball. Paige's major league debut came in 1948 at age forty-two with the Cleveland Indians. That season, he became the first player from the Negro Leagues to pitch in a World Series. |