Friday, October 31, 2003

spring '37 -- you could look it up paige had been playing out in wyoming maybe or some place in the mid-west they would let a negro play except his wife then didn't like it all cold and white and so he made it up with gus greenlee who was the numbers runner owned the pittsburgh crawfords and went down to new orleans for spring training but there were some guys looking for him. "poppa," he said, for cool poppa the fastest man alive was on greenlee's team too, "i know they will offer me money these spanish guys who are looking for me... you know i'll take it... money is the thing i cannot resist..." 11:47:17 AM    comment []