Satchel Paige was one of the most fascinating baseball players the game has ever seen. His professional career stretched across five decades, starting in 1927 with the Birmingham Black Barons and ending in 1965 when he took the mound at 59 years old for the Kansas City Athletics. The stories sound exaggerated, but they are real. Paige Negro League and MLB Career He made his MLB debut in 1948, just a year after Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier. As a 42-year-old rookie, Paige went 6-1 with a 2.48 ERA down the stretch of the season to help the Cleveland Indians win the 1948 World Series. Baseball great Satchel Paige (right), Harlem Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon (center) showing his skills with the basketball with St. Louis Cardinals catcher Tim McCarver (left) before the start a game at Municipal Auditorium on Nov. 17, 1964.…