ONE-RING CIRCUS | The nomadic and popular Satchel Paige attracted circus-like attention everywhere he pitched. In 1946, the Monarchs purchased a plane for Paige. To meet a demanding schedule he required this Cessna airplane. To fill the bill, Paige often pitched two to three innings several days in a row. "I sure get laughs when I see in the papers where some major league pitcher says he gets a sore arm because he's overworked, and he pitches every four days. Man, that'd be just a vacation to me." Paige's constant companion was boxer Henry "Homicide Hank" Armstrong, who in 1938, had become boxing's first simultaneous triple titleholder. (Courtesy of NoirTech Research, Inc.)

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