Satchel Paige in popular culture
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- The character of Bingo Long in the film The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is based on Paige.
- The Chicago post-punk band Shellac references Paige, as well as Gary Cooper and Sammy Davis, Jr., in their song "My Black Ass." "It's too late for Satchel Paige/It's a Gary Cooper story/And it shines like Sammy's knee."
- In the 1997 experimental film Gummo, a character mentions that Paige shot heroin during his time in Cuba.
- A pocket watch engraved for Satchel Paige from the Chicago Defender appeared on the U.S. edition of Antiques Roadshow in 2007 and was appraised at $20,000.[1]
- In the 2005 comedy film Are We There Yet?, the main character has a talking Satchel Paige bobblehead, voiced by Tracy Morgan.
- James Sturm produced a graphic novel in 2007, titled Satchel Paige, which tells the story of Paige's life.
- Woody Allen and Mia Farrow named their son Satchel, although he is now known as Ronan Seamus Farrow.
- Darby Conley, cartoonist for the comic strip Get Fuzzy, named his character Satchel after Paige.
- In 2008, musicians Scott McCaughey (of The Minus 5), Steve Wynn, Linda Pitmon, and Peter Buck formed The Baseball Project to pay homage to America 's greatest pastime. Their album Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails contains the song "Satchel Paige Said", a tribute to his work for integrating baseball.[2]