Maybe Ill Pitch Forever
A Great Baseball Player Tells the Hilarious Story behind the Legend

I read this book decades ago and it enlightened me about the "place" of black athletes in baseball in the first half of the twentieth century. The book is important not for its insight or in depth reporting but for the fact that it was among the earliest books to tell about black players. Edit 2019:......more

The famed pitcher Paige tells about his career, and most of it may even be true. From his early start, as a young teenager playing with grown men, to his many years in the Negro Leagues and his final triumphant entry into the majors (when he was past his prime), he pens a fascinating tale.......more

For awhile I had been looking to find a book on Satchel Paige that I could read. But there were a lot of books out there to choose from, but I could never pick one . It wasn't until I read Buck O'Neil's book that I settled on Maybe I'll Pitch Forever. If this book was good enough for Buck, then it w......more

I would give this book six stars if I could. This is now one of my favorite autobiographies of all time. It's hard to find something truly unique in this world, but Satchel Paige is authentically one-of-a-kind. Yes, you do have to be somewhat of a baseball fan to enjoy the book. However, the discussi......more

What a great story, by a larger-than-life storyteller. You never know if what you read is 100% true, or exaggerated, but what Paige describes is a hard scrabble life of a guy who knows how to make money by capitalizing on his freakish abilities to play baseball, and who knows how to spend said money......more