Inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame, 1971. Pitched in the Negro
Leagues, 1926-1950. Pitched for the American League's Cleveland Indians
(1948-1949), St. Louis Browns (1951-1953), and Kansas City Athletics
(1965).
One of the great baseball pitchers of his era, Paige played most of his
career in the Negro League. In 1948, as one of the first black players
in the major leagues, he became in all likelihood the oldest rookie in
baseball history. (He was officially 42, but widely regarded as older.)
In 1965 he pitched three innings of a major league game.
Oldest player to become a rookie in the major leagues in 1948 (at the
age of 42).
In the Negro Leagues, he played for the Birmingham Black Barons,
Baltimore Black Sox, Cleveland Cubs, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Kansas City
Monarchs. New York Black Yankees, Memphis Red Sox, and Philadelphia
Stars.
Was the oldest person ever named to his first All-Star team when he was named to the 1952 American League All-Star team at age 46.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume
One, 1981-1985, pages 623-625. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1998.