Satchel Paige

The network edited remarks the president made about baseball great Satchel Paige to make the comments seem racially insensitive.
Obama joined other prominent figures to salute the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro Leagues.
The Hill, or "Little Harlem" as it was referred to from the '30s thru the '50s, was one of the elite African-American neighborhoods in America. It was home to one of the most vibrant jazz scenes in the country, as well as one of its hottest clubs, The Crawford Grill, which was owned by Gus Greenlee.