Editing Satchel Paige (section)

===St. Louis Browns===
[[File:Satchel Paige St. Louis Browns.jpg|thumb|180px|Paige as a member of the St. Louis Browns, circa 1951–53.]]
Penniless, Paige returned to his barnstorming days after being released from the Indians. When Veeck bought an 80% interest in the St. Louis Browns he soon signed Paige. In his first game back in the major leagues, on July 18, 1951, against the Washington Senators, Paige pitched six innings of shutout baseball until the seventh when he gave up three runs. He ended the season with a 3–4 record and a 4.79 ERA.

In 1952, Rogers Hornsby took over as manager of the Browns, and despite past accusations of racism, Hornsby was less hesitant to use Paige than Boudreau was four years before. Paige was so effective that when Hornsby was fired by Veeck, his successor [[Marty Marion]] seemed not to want to risk going more than three games without using Paige in some form. By July 4, with Paige having worked in 25 games, [[Casey Stengel]] named him to the American League [[1952 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] team, making him the first black pitcher on an AL All-Star team. The All-Star game was cut short after five innings due to rain and Paige never got in. Stengel resolved to name him to the team the following year. Paige finished the year 12–10 with a 3.07 ERA for a team that lost ninety games.<ref>McElrath, Jessica. [http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/satchelpaige/p/bio_paige_s.htm "African American History"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708052542/http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/satchelpaige/p/bio_paige_s.htm |date=July 8, 2009 }}. About.com. March 14, 2009.</ref>

Stengel kept his word and named Paige to the [[1953 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1953 All-Star team]] despite Paige not having a very good year. Paige ended the year with a disappointing 3–9 record. Paige was released after the season when Veeck sold the Browns.