Displayed is a Satchel Paige signed index card. "Don't look back," said Hall of Fame right-hander Leroy "Satchel" Paige, "Something might be gaining on you." But despite Satchel's maxim, it's impossible not to look back at Paige's astounding career, and to look back in wonder. Paige began his big-league professional baseball career with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts in 1926. Almost four decades later, in 1965, he pitched three scoreless innings for the Kansas City Athletics in an official regular season game against the Boston Red Sox. In between, Paige pitched, usually year-round, practically all over the baseball world: the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic. He pitched for many teams in the Negro Leagues: Kansas City Monarchs, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Homestead Grays, Memphis Red Sox, and many others. Records of his play in the Negro Leagues are incomplete, but between playing in the Negro Leagues, barnstorming and participating in winter ball in the Caribbean, Paige pitched in thousands of games, winning thousands of times. Often, while barnstorming, Paige would pitch the opening three innings of a game to draw a large crowd and then another pitcher would take his place, and Paige could do the same thing day-after-day. Because of baseball's unwritten "Color Line," Paige didn't make his Major League debut until 1948, when he was believed to be 42 years old. Paige went 6-1, with a 2.78 ERA for Cleveland Indians that year, and when Cleveland played in the World Series, Paige became the first African American pitcher to play in the World Series. Paige pitched again for the Indians in '49. After a year out of the Major Leagues, Paige pitched three more Major League seasons with the St. Louis Browns (1951-53). Joe DiMaggio said that Satchel was, "The best and fastest pitcher I ever faced." Satchel Paige was not only one of the best pitchers in baseball history, but he was also a consummate showman. Although technically on one team at a time in the Negro Leagues, Paige was often allowed to play exhibition games during the Negro League seasons, and in these games, he would pitch for many other teams in the Negro American and National Leagues. Paige was always cagey about his actual age, preferring to be mysterious about it. "I don't know how old I am, " said Paige when he was well along in baseball years. "Because a goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be 27." The offered signed index card measures approx. 3x5". Paige has neatly signed the card in blue/black ink. The card exhibits some darkening from the passage of years, but it is in otherwise EXCELLENT condition. The card has been encapsulated and PSA/DNA certified as AUTHENTIC AUTO.