Larry Tye: Satchel

Baseball is more than just the game played on the field.  It is about the conversations and arguments common to family rooms, bar stools, and barber shops from Cooperstown to Candlestick.  What was the best team of all time?  How might Babe Ruth have done if matched up against Randy Johnson?  Should there be a designated hitter or not?  Questions like these can never be answered definitively, but they add to the fabric of the game, connecting one generation to the next.  Author Larry Tye dives into one of these age-old questions: Who is the greatest pitcher ever?  His answer takes the form of a tremendous book, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend. Larry was good enough to spend part of his morning last week talking to me about Satchel Paige and Negro League baseball. Enjoy… 

(This interview originally appeared at BronxBanterBlog.com.)