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C A M P U S N E W SPhotos by Gail FriedmanAuthor Larry TyeA Paige in HistoryReeling backward, his leftfoot extended as high ashis head, Satchel Paigeappeared on the video screen,looking ready to launch hisbaseball right into the PerformingArts Center.Larry Tye, author ofSatchel: The Life and Timesof an American Legend, husbandof Lisa Frusztajer ’80, andstepparent of CA senior MarinaLong, brought the baseballlegend to life at a winterassembly, describing his unhittablepitches as well as theintransigent racism that keptPaige from Major LeagueBaseball until late in his career.“Nobody ever pitchedbetter for longer,” Tye said.Paige started pitching in the1920s and was still taking tothe mound in the 1960s.With Tye as a guide, CAstudents, faculty, and stafftraveled through Paige’s life,from the Alabama ReformSchool for Juvenile Negro LawBreakers, where he learnedto pitch, to his first game withthe all-black ChattanoogaWhite Sox, in 1926, and ontoward his Major Leaguecareer. Jackie Robinson reintegratedbaseball in 1947 (it waspartially integrated after theCivil War), and Paige signedwith the Cleveland Indiansa year later. He had a 6–1record that season and thesecond-lowest earned runaverage in the AmericanLeague, Tye said.Tye flashed a photo ofPaige on the screen, sitting onthe field in a rocking chair. Itwas 1965, and the owner ofthe Kansas City Athletics, hopingto increase attendance,brought in Paige for a gameagainst the Red Sox. Hemocked his age by putting thepitcher in the rocker and placinga nurse at his side. ButPaige had the last laugh: inthree innings, the Red Sox gotone hit off the fifty-nine-yearold—froman excited CarlYastrzemski, who huggedPaige because his father hadgotten a hit off the legendtwenty years earlier. “He stuckaround so long that he couldpitch against fathers and sonsand grandsons,” Tye said.Satchel Paige’s distinctive pitching stanceC O N C O R D A C A D E M Y M A G A Z I N E S P R I N G 2 0 1 04Mock Trial, Real Courtroom DramaEveryone could feel thetension in the courthouse.Eitan Tye ’12, CA’s witness forthe defense, was not givingup. The opposing lawyer, fromActon-Boxborough RegionalSusan Lapides P’12High School, kept asking thesame question, trying to elicita damning one-word answerwith his cross-examination.But Eitan knew his affidavitwell and stuck to his answer.The opposing lawyer grewincreasingly angry and confused,like an actor making upa new script on the spot, butEitan did not back down.The Mock Trial Club, CA’snewest team, competed thiswinter, along with about twohundred other Massachusettshigh schools, in the MassachusettsBar Association’s MockTrial competition. Membersreceived trial books with rulesof the competition as well asaffidavits and other evidencethat would be used in the trial—a case involving a middleincomeman who sued hisinvestment adviser after substantiallosses in a high-riskhedge fund.During meetings eachweek, CA’s legal coach, SteveWinnick, senior partner at Winnick& Sullivan in Watertown,Massachusetts, along withfaculty advisor and CA AssistantLibrarian Wendy BergerP’01, ’06, taught club memberscourtroom basics: how tohandle themselves before ajudge, how to put documentsinto evidence, how to object,and how to get witnesses tosay exactly what they wantthem to say. “The case materialsand the applicable lawwere highly nuanced, offeringpluses and minuses for bothsides in advocating for theirclients, and are as challengingas any graduate law studentmight face on the Massachusettsbar examination,” saidWinnick.Club members wrotescripts for opening statements,closing statements,and cross- and direct examinationsfor both the defense andplaintiff. At the first trial,against Acton-Boxborough,CA’s team of four lawyers andthree witnesses entered the