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Baseball card for rookie Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Bowman Gum Company

Leroy "Satchell" Paige baseball card. Baseball card features color image of Paige in uniform, depicted from above the chest. Dark blue type at bottom of the card reads: [LEROY "Satchell" PAIGE]. The reverse side of baseball card features a biography and statistics.

Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

1949
Ink on paper
6.4 x 5.4cm
2013.120.1
Image and text © National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2020

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