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Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country’s dictator, Rafael Trujillo. As it turned out, the money wasn’t so easy. After Paige and his friends arrived on the island, they found themselves under the thumb of Trujillo, known by Dominicans for

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Author

Smith, Averell "Ace"

Publisher

Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496219527

Category

sports

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Social Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14