Joe Biden called baseball legend Satchel Paige “the great negro” in his latest gaffe.
He continued: “And Satchel Paige on his 47th birthday pitched a win against Chicago. And all the press went in and said, ‘Satch is amazing. Forty-seven years old. No one’s ever, ever pitched a win at age 47. How do you feel about being 47?’ He said, ‘Boys, that’s not how I look at it.’ And they said, ‘How do you look at it, Satch? And he said, ‘I look at it this way: How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?’”
Paige moved to Major League Baseball in the late 1940s, but his career as a whole spanned five decades. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1971.
Biden tells a story about “the great negro at the time” Satchel Paige. pic.twitter.com/VcyfHQkCEm
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) November 11, 2021
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