Who was the oldest player to make it to Major League Baseball and what was his age?
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The baseball almanac says Sachel Paige was the oldest player to ever play in Major League Baseball at 59. He was also the oldest rookie at the age of 42. The reason for him being so old coming into the league, was due to the fact he had played for most of his life in the Negro League prior to MLB and intergration..In 1965, Satchel Paige at the age of 59, pitched one game for the Kansas City Athletics against the Boston Redsox.
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Satchel Paige appeared for the Cleveland Indians in his fitst game on July 9th, 1948. He was somewhere between the ages of 42-48 (he gave everyone a different age) and he faced the Browns. He ended that first year 6-1, but then age caught up with him.Carl crawford or Carlos Beltran?
Satchel Paige was 42 years old. He was born on July 7, 1906 and debuted on July 9, 1946.Why do baseball stadiums besides a few, always look half empty during the regular season?
John Franco played for the Braves and then the Mets and he was like 49. He was in great shape for his age, though and swung a big bat.Satchel Paige, who made his MLB debut 2 says after his 42nd birthday, because the institutionalized stupidity of segregated baseball kept him in the Negro Leagues until then.
We don't have anywhere near full records from the Negro Leagues, so when we say that Nolan Ryan, for example, holds the records for career K's and no-hitters, we may be wrong. And when we say that Cy Young holds the career wins record, we may be wrong. They may all, and a lot more, be held by Satchel Paige. He was THAT good.
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