ALS signed in the body “Satchel,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Atlanta Braves letterhead, no date. Paige writes to an unidentified recipient, alternating between first and third person. In part [grammar and spelling his]: “About this deal in New Orleans. Just answer them and tell them that Satchel have been getting a fee for speaking because he don’t make a large sum. He is working for his pen this year and to get away from the club I don’t know if they will let me and I don’t want to go for fun. Bill it is a lots of catcher have caught me, ask them for 500 hundred it look like someone want to make some money. So let me make a nickle to, the boy is not sick or nothing, it is just a game.” In very good condition, with scattered toning (mostly to edges) and several corner creases. JSA/Mike Gutierrez Auction LOA and RRAuction COA.
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