re: How good was Satchel Paige?

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Your grandma was some baseball player's side piece. It all makes sense now.

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More like mistress since they were so serious for years and years but yes. I had known about her and Dizzy since I was a kid, from what her and my parents told me they were very much in love. She died a year and a half ago, she was almost 94, and while we were cleaning out her house I found letters from her and Lou Boudreau who is also in the MLB HOF and based on one letter he wrote her there is no doubt it was a pretty serious relationship as well that had been going on for awhile. She was a cleat chaser for sure but at least she didn't just frick decent players a few times, she got MLB HOF'ers to fall head over heals in love with her!