Editing Satchel Paige (section)

==Personal life==
On October 26, 1934, Paige married his longtime girlfriend Janet Howard. They separated a few years later and she served Paige with divorce papers while he was walking onto the field during a game at [[Wrigley Field]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/satchel-paige-9431917|title=Satchel Paige|website=www.biography.com|language=en-us|access-date=February 13, 2017}}</ref> At his court date, on August 4, 1943, Paige's divorce was finalized with him paying a one time payment of $1,500 plus Howard's $300 attorney's fees.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth399646/m1/3/|title=San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1943|date=August 13, 1943|website=Texas Digital Newspaper Program}}</ref>

Paige married Lucy Maria Figueroa during his time playing in Puerto Rico in 1940, but because he was not divorced from his first wife, the marriage to Figueroa was not legal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/p/paige/#references|title=Satchel Paige|last=Harper|first=Kimberly|website=Historic Missouians|publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri|access-date=February 1, 2017|archive-date=February 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202145836/http://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/p/paige/#references|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1946 or 1947, Paige married LaHoma Jean Brown.<ref>At least three dates are reported for the marriage. Paige's autobiography says it took place on October 12, 1947, Paige's gravestone lists March 5, 1946, and LaHoma, in sworn testimony, said that it occurred on October 13, 1947. See Tye 2009, pp. 219–220.</ref> Paige and LaHoma had seven children together; LaHoma also had a daughter from an earlier marriage.<ref>Tye 2009, pp. 162, 222–223.</ref>