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This is Retro Sports Radio. Visit RetroSeasons.com for more sports history.

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The word fabulous is perhaps one of the most overworked adjectives in the English language.

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However, I cannot think of a better way to announce today's guest without reverting to the phrase.

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My guest today will be the fabulous Satchel Paige.

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I'll begin interviewing my old friend right after we hear this important message.

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We played a ball game in Kansas City, Satch. You were driving your car. We left Kansas City Sunday night.

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Rode on that bus from Sunday night until Tuesday morning, got into Philadelphia, played a twilight doubleheader.

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How is it that you were able to perform day in and day out, living under the conditions that you were?

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Well, Jack, it's the only thing I can see that when we was back playing like that, we used to ride with our knees up on our chin,

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and four and five hundred miles, and we couldn't eat correctly at times.

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And then we'd get out and didn't have time to stretch and jump on maybe one of the best clubs in Philly,

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and it'd be a one or two-nothing game. And we'd done that for years, not only just one year.

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That's the way we did until you got into majors.

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What is the most important thing for a man to be successful?

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I remember the great stories that they told about Satchel Pais.

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You used to walk three men just to get a Jice Gibson to challenge the greatest hitter, I think, that baseball has produced.

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This guy was fantastic, in my opinion. What was the challenge? Is it just a personal thing between you and Jice?

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Yes, we was playing in Puerto Rico, and I was playing against Jice. I was playing with Sinclair, and he was playing with Sinclar.

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And I'd beat him that day, and he told me one of these days his family was going to be at the baseball park,

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and Gus Greenlee, and a whole lot of the big, big people was in pitch play, and that he was going to hit me with a fence and so.

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I got by the Kansas City Monarchs, and he still was with the Grays, and so we'd come up there to play him.

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And it was two out, so I walked the bases to get to Jice, and then I walked up and told him, I said, here's the chance.

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What happened?

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I threw him three balls. I threw him two fast balls and one curve ball.

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And he sat down, huh?

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Yeah.

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Well, that's the kind of arm. How is it that your arm is able to stand up under these pressures?

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You, because you were the drawing card in the Negro league, you would go in and pitch two, three, four innings every day,

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or else the people wouldn't come out. How is it if your arm stood up? Do you diet?

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I see. Does that help you stand out? Or can you eat anything you want, or are you picky with your food?

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Well, I got to be picky because I have a gastric stomach. I've been at it.

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Oh, what do you do? I've got a stomach that's causing me some trouble. Maybe I can get an idea of what I can do for mine.

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Well, I started picking goat milk, and it helped me a lot.

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Goat milk?

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Mm-hmm.

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Well, let's just see. Maybe I'll tell my wife about this. Maybe she'll bring me some goat milk and see if that'll help my stomach.

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So that's thanks a lot for being with us, and good luck with your career.

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And you're welcome.

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And that just about does it for now, fans. See you soon.