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   Sliced Bread                 Satchel Paige
Today – The first loaf of commercially pre-sliced bead was sold 83 years ago today to a then dubious public which – after several years – finally succumbed to “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped”  with the introduction of the notoriously mal-nourishing but gummy-sweet and factory sliced Wonder Bread* in 1930. (*Proving once and for all that most people will eat crap - if it goes down easily and tastes good.) 

Birthday Boy ­– Baseball’s indestructible Leroy Robert “Satchel” Paige was born 105 years ago today in Mobile, Alabama. That said, if you don’t know Satchel Paige – you don’t know baseball. More to the point, one of the remaining eternal mysteries in life is how and why no one with the talents of a Ron Howard, or Steven Spielberg has made an epic bio-pic worthy of the Negro League mega-star who followed Jackie Robinson into the previously all-white Majors in 1948 – becoming the oldest rookie in the history of the game at 42, and the first black to be inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Serious students of the game say Paige was easily the greatest pitcher in the history of the game (although his life may have been even more remarkable than his blazing fastball.)
   History also suggests Paige may have out-Yogi-ed Berra, given his advice on how to live well and long:
“Avoid friend meats, which angry up the blood.
“If your stomach disputes you, like down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
“Keep the juices moving by jangling around gently as you move.
“Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society – the social ramble ain’t restful.
“Avoid running at all times.
“Don’t look back – something may be gaining on you.”