The famous Satchel Paige wit shines through and through when the Negro League superstar can't decide what his greatest day in baseball is. It seems that San Domingo president Di Rafael Trujillo had paid many of the Negro League stars of the time to field the best team of the history of the Caribbean in order to bring honor and prestige to his country and to help him win an upcoming election. They get a baseball guide, only maybe it's a 1907 guide or something like that, and then they read part of the rules, them they can understand, and the rest they make up themselves. So in the championship game of the season against the Estrellas de Oriente, Paige is on the mound. He knows that if the San Domingo team doesn't win, there is a good chance that Trujillo wasn't going to let the high-priced Negro League players out of the country alive.
Money makes no difference.
Baseball is spiritual in every respect, as indulged in by the Latin races. I am saving the clipping of that paper because I am thinking that if he is right and baseball is spiritual as it is played there, ol' Satchel could be a spirit right now if we didn't win that big game. My Greatest Day in Baseball is full of fantastic anecdotes like this. Almost every major event in baseball that took place between 1900 and 1945 is covered at some point. This is not only recommended reading for the baseball history fan, it should be required.