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A SWING AND A MISS!

Satchel Paige was the Baseball Player.

Potter Stewart was the Federal Judge.

Satchel Paige

Joe DiMaggio called Leroy “Satchel” Paige “the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.” With incredible pitching and outstanding showboating, Paige’s career highlights span five decades. For 22 years, “the greatest pitcher in the history of the Negro Leagues” dominated the mound. His dream, however, was to pitch in the Major Leagues. When the Cleveland Indians needed extra pitching in 1948, Paige’s dream came true. As the story goes, Cleveland’s Bill Veeck placed a cigarette on the ground for Paige to treat as home plate. Set, aim, fire. Four out of five fastballs whizzed over the cig, and Veeck was sold. Apparently, stories like this are not uncommon. Tom Meany once said, “More fabulous tales have been told of Satchel’s pitching ability than of any other pitcher in organized baseball.” The man seems to have lived up to the stories too. During an exhibition game against white major leaguers, Paige reportedly struck out 22 batters in a single game. And, once he was in the majors, Paige helped the Indians win the pennant. He brought out the crowds, too, as he helped set the still-standing record of highest attendance at a night game: 78,382. Fans were also entertained by his antics. For example, he would have outfielders sit behind the mound while he struck out a batter. After his time with Cleveland, he also played for St. Louis and Kansas City. Overall, Paige exhibited longevity and enduring success in the game. As it turns out, this fact contributed to the difficulty of ascertaining his age. In addition to an amount of mystery surrounding his birthday, his long and consistent career made his age hard to track. To this day, the exact date is still only an estimate. On the rare occasions he talked about his age, he would say things like, “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” To be sure, his legacy continues long past his own years: he was the first Negro League star to enter the Hall of Fame.

Potter Stewart

The son of the Republican mayor of Cincinnati, Potter Stewart grew up around politics. Stewart graduated from Yale College, completed a year of postgraduate study at Cambridge in England, and graduated from Yale Law School. During World War II, he served as an officer in the United States Navy and sometimes performed legal services in courts-martial. After practicing law in New York, Stewart moved to a firm in Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, he served as Vice Mayor and twice won a seat on City Counsel. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Stewart to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1954. After a recess appointment to the Supreme Court in 1958, Stewart received a formal appointment to the Court in 1959. Stewart played a large role in crafting the High Court’s unanimous opinion in Nixon v. United States, which ordered President Nixon to surrender to the special prosecutor the tape recordings whose disclosures led to Nixon’s resignation. One of Stewart’s most famous lines came in his concurrence in the pornography case, Jacobellis v. Ohio. In his concurring opinion, Stewart did not formulate a precise definition for pornography; instead, he wrote, “I know it when I see it.”

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Satchel Paige

Joe DiMaggio called Leroy “Satchel” Paige “the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.” With incredible pitching and outstanding showboating, Paige’s career highlights span five decades. For 22 years, “the greatest pitcher in the history of the Negro Leagues” dominated the mound. His dream, however, was to pitch in the Major Leagues. When the Cleveland Indians needed extra pitching in 1948, Paige’s dream came true. As the story goes, Cleveland’s Bill Veeck placed a cigarette on the ground for Paige to treat as home plate. Set, aim, fire. Four out of five fastballs whizzed over the cig, and Veeck was sold. Apparently, stories like this are not uncommon. Tom Meany once said, “More fabulous tales have been told of Satchel’s pitching ability than of any other pitcher in organized baseball.” The man seems to have lived up to the stories too. During an exhibition game against white major leaguers, Paige reportedly struck out 22 batters in a single game. And, once he was in the majors, Paige helped the Indians win the pennant. He brought out the crowds, too, as he helped set the still-standing record of highest attendance at a night game: 78,382. Fans were also entertained by his antics. For example, he would have outfielders sit behind the mound while he struck out a batter. After his time with Cleveland, he also played for St. Louis and Kansas City. Overall, Paige exhibited longevity and enduring success in the game. As it turns out, this fact contributed to the difficulty of ascertaining his age. In addition to an amount of mystery surrounding his birthday, his long and consistent career made his age hard to track. To this day, the exact date is still only an estimate. On the rare occasions he talked about his age, he would say things like, “Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” To be sure, his legacy continues long past his own years: he was the first Negro League star to enter the Hall of Fame.

Potter Stewart

The son of the Republican mayor of Cincinnati, Potter Stewart grew up around politics. Stewart graduated from Yale College, completed a year of postgraduate study at Cambridge in England, and graduated from Yale Law School. During World War II, he served as an officer in the United States Navy and sometimes performed legal services in courts-martial. After practicing law in New York, Stewart moved to a firm in Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, he served as Vice Mayor and twice won a seat on City Counsel. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Stewart to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1954. After a recess appointment to the Supreme Court in 1958, Stewart received a formal appointment to the Court in 1959. Stewart played a large role in crafting the High Court’s unanimous opinion in Nixon v. United States, which ordered President Nixon to surrender to the special prosecutor the tape recordings whose disclosures led to Nixon’s resignation. One of Stewart’s most famous lines came in his concurrence in the pornography case, Jacobellis v. Ohio. In his concurring opinion, Stewart did not formulate a precise definition for pornography; instead, he wrote, “I know it when I see it.”

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