June 8, 1982: During a power failure, Satchel Paige died of a heart attack at his home in Kansas City, a month before his 76th birthday. He is buried on Paige Island in the Forest Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Kansas City. Leroy Robert 'Satchel' Paige was a baseball player whose pitching in the Negro […]
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