Mobile Tigers

 ( African-american History In Mobile, Alabama ) 

The Mobile Tigers was a semi-professional baseball team composed entirely[1] Stories of Children, "Snatching A Moment with Satch" of African-American players based in Mobile, Alabama. It was one of several Black baseball teams based in Mobile during the same period and was a training ground for at least three players who later joined the Negro leagues.[2] Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe: 36 Years of Pitching & Catching in Baseball's Negro Leagues

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Significant players Shortly after leaving a reform school in Mount Meigs, Alabama, Satchel Paige started his career with Mobile at age 18.[3] Satchel Paige Stats and Awards[4] Major League Baseball: Negro Leagues Legacy[5] The African American Registry[6] James A. Riley, The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1994 (Negro Leagues Baseball Museum at Kansas State University College of Education) The employed Paige had been job hunting but in his spare time enjoyed watching his older brother Wilson playing for this team. Presenting himself in a audition to Candy Jim Taylor, the Mobile Tigers's manager at that time, Paige fired ten past Taylor. After ten pitches and ten strikes, Paige got a job with the Tigers in 1924.[7] New York Times (June 8, 1982) Obituary of Satchel Paige at the Negro League Baseball Players Association According to Paige, Mobile paid him "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't."

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According to a sports writer for the Birmingham-Pittsburg Traveller, Paige's position pitching for the semi-pro Mobile Tigers was the launching pad for "one of the most successful careers in baseball history."[8] Birmingham-Pittsburg Traveller(kenyon.edu) After playing for the Mobile Tigers for one year, Paige began his professional baseball career with the Chattanooga White Sox of the Negro Southern League.

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Future Negro league stars Ted Radcliffe (as well as his brother Forney) and Bobby Robinson also played on the Mobile Tigers at the same time as Paige.[9] Bobby Robinson Wood Sign

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