Bob Feller and Satchel Paige — Satchel by Larry Tye, Author and ...

At age seventeen he fanned seventeen Philadelphia Athletics, an American League record that he would break two years later. Feller also wanted to be the richest player ever and came even closer there, in part by organizing a series of ... DC-3 planes to ferry the cream of the Major League players to the thirty-four games he set up across the U.S. He hired a doctor, a trainer, a lawyer, a secretary, a publicity man, and an advance man, then booked ballparks and hotels. ...