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Reconnecting With My Absent Father Who Was Presumed Dead, Daughter's Schizophrenia Led to Opening a Business and "How Old Would You Be If You Didn't Know How Old You Are?": The Life of Satchel Paige

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June 16, 2022 3:00 am

Reconnecting With My Absent Father Who Was Presumed Dead, Daughter's Schizophrenia Led to Opening a Business and "How Old Would You Be If You Didn't Know How Old You Are?": The Life of Satchel Paige

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June 16, 2022 3:00 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, Ron Brown, a man who grew up in a rough area of Chicago, shares how he was practically abandoned by his father, but would mend their relationship later on in life. Donna shares how her daughter, Cassie, was diagnosed with Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia as a teenager and their daily jobs became more difficult so, they dropped everything and opened a resale shop. Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, tells the story of a man many historians consider to be the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball-Leroy "Satchel" Paige. 

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00:00 - Reconnecting With My Absent Father Who Was Presumed Dead

25:00 - Daughter's Schizophrenia Led to Opening a Business

37:00 - "How Old Would You Be If You Didn't Know How Old You Are?": The Life of Satchel Paige 

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My mother was a pretty tough lady. She's about 6263 – even play in less than 5006 I have even played so I grew up in a home where my parents were really about education. I will be a key to say hey you know, be a professional athlete on this and that was like look, that's a great goal blade with unique and amazing dream. Whatever you can do with your mind that your body will facilitate you have a very very lengthy career. I can remember fogging to take me just the Chicago Bulls and I sit here watching and playing and Michael Jordan was like them up at night. The rain and I was yelling and screaming and need more popcorn than looking at present when he top on the floor.

Electric injury don't have my best time ever, any testing on the shoulders when the blue-collar timeout basis and some are some places is the greatest job in this whole agreement, looked at him because I thought it was a crazy question and I like Michael Jordan in Minnesota makes it easy to box up there with those guys walking around he knows how does see pieces they have the best job in the building.

They're the ones who pay. Michael Jordan is leaving up you may not be spring form. The reason why was going on so I want to learn the big picture approach to life.

So this is really Got me thinking alive is you know what Mike's going to retire one day the bull still want to be here. My son have injury Monday. Guess what the bull still be here, and he's like that's what I'm doing. I want to go much to learn about life being the God is still there is transitions continue to happen to life in the life my father say something it wasn't a good experience with employment, but those bad expansions with him made me think today a much better father so he was the head will pick you up. You also get dressed on the little half a day. Some of what was I like to ski promises you show up and I can remember one particular time getting dressed for me.

I have my pants, shirt, and my time page in the comments. I am ready to look at me LOL and I remember sit in the window, dressed and waiting on my father, and waiting on him to come to the point that I fell asleep in my stepfather picking me up and put me to bed and taking my shoes off, woke up big in the city, he said no he didn't coexist but you know I'm here.

And always remember that memory, you know. So for me anything about what my children.

I will give us a basketball game on campus, a football game coming from and so three years I never hated my father, my father, but I didn't understand, and so with that I was able to find a happy you know his father when they said he was going out to the store to go get a pack of cigarettes in the ass and his brother what you want me sitting wasn't Candice that his father never came back. He made 65 or six you never saw Scott again and so with that when I come to realize that my father know how to be a father because he never hated example so with those things.

It cannot say something of course they shake you break me nothing.

Some of the situations in our lives they break. This may times in the broken people so for. From that moment on my life is is I will never have had a great stepfather is very determined that I would never do that to my kids so no child of mine say, hey, I sent them a door step away from a data coming in, as importantly, you're listening to Ron Brown is real, that his biological dad was a character right now to catch me if you can do black version passing checks limit their life, make bed, grew up, I went home. It was all about education a step that really loved and right said those bad experiences of my biological father made me a better never hated my father didn't understand until I learned about how his father's father five or six years old.

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Will fast. Four years later, because if you do family feud episode. The key playing episode over and over and over and over and over key so it stays in rotation for years and so she started law school and I was making the trick from Atlanta to Birmingham three nicely school was one particular night I was leaving class I get a phone call from a number never seen before is like my answer the phone is about your parents voice. You never forget it.

Even though I had her father's wishes 20+ years. The phone rings I answer what he says hello son. And at that moment, I just broke down and cried, had close to the side of road Highway 20.

He was like so not been looking for you, and I was looking for you on how to get my number and was array of emotions and in time he was five. He said you not only disinterment lost track of you when I got out of work.

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He said you know what to see how I did everything wrong in life and the city should be someone's right just so proud of you.

So that's the best that's a big part of my journey. So even though he just being the most amazing day in the world.

Years later, he's become a great great great great great grandfather you know something we see more more more sound was the importance of forgiveness and no one is perfect. Everyone does something wrong, she will always talk about you know when Jesus first and no first. And even though she didn't get it right. I was open to allowing him to get it right. I was open I think you have to be open sometimes to give because you are carrying them around with you. I just really think that it just really really well just fear the roads everything in you because you care around the baggage of a heart.

Something that happened years and years and years ago when you can't get over it and can't move past it keeps you locked in place.

The phrase is a mentor of mine always say that anger is a waste of emotion. Anger will cost you a lot a lot of people's attention right now because they were angry in the second, something that will so I just learned the importance of just hold onto it sometimes get a move on past hold onto the steps of his mind about numbers like this is really kind of crazy that you should write a story that is Jesus new shoes Judas.

Jesus by Judas, but Jesus didn't think the journey would so the fact that trade on the he still loved. That's an important message right still love. He knew he was going to do, but he still loved Around read the Bible you know there was Jesus on the name of the relationship love someone, even though the weight is but you know what I click that selection father's love our kids always do this to our children. We still love relationships with still wish them well and I think of how God we have great love with whom you are in the door is always open for you to come back to the most powerful thing about the Christian faith was always open for being nowhere near Jesus Christ. Learn the importance of keeping the door open message from Ron Brown and when faith is a part of people's lives. We put it right out there in his forgiveness, which came straight from his faith, but opened the door, my goodness, what a door it opened my goodness, what he did with his wife just weeks before wanting to name his son after the father that was never there with the middle name and the wife saying what gives and him walking through that he forgiven his own death and teaching his wife the power of forgiveness and two weeks later that call comes looking for you hello son and he said I described some of us believe in coincidence some of us believe in fate, destiny, and some of us believe in God and believers. That's a God moment a got wink if ever there is one Ron Brown story and we'd love to hear yours and your story style American stories.com that's our American stories.com Ron Brown story a beauty here on our American stories.

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I was director of radiology hospital here in Mississippi for many many years that Arkansas got married, had three children and 1990.

Cassie became ill on her 14th birthday. It was a Sunday afternoon.

I remember it very well be in the kitchen that Diane said the new kids on the block or singing happy birthday to me through the air conditioner and that was aha moment I begin to think back and she had been telling me things that I have not paid attention. I say this and I don't think people really understand when I say she didn't sleep she was five years old and I think now she hearing the voices and that was normal to her that many many nights. We didn't sleep so I call the pediatrician announced that we need to talk to you and so we met them at the emergency room and after about an hour of her talking came out he said that some serious issues. She was in and out of hospitals and it took a long time to get a diagnosis because a lot of doctors did know a lot about schizophrenia tickets a year. We went out to UCLA the neuropsychiatric Institute and that's where we got our diagnosis of chronic paranoid schizophrenia. At age 15 she was having such a hard time here. It I don't think it really resonated with what chronic paranoid schizophrenia was. He just knew he was he was hearing these horses there are very real to her. It was very scary for her was hard to find anybody trader. It was just a nightmare because I couldn't get any help and I can find any peace or I also had two other children. She went to school until she was in the 10th grade and I finally took her out because here she was a quiet shy little girl sitting over the quarter crown so after six months of them calling me every day.

You know, we don't know what to do with her. I finally took her out of school so I had to stay home and take care of her and educate myself on what to expect in how to handle what were going through. It was extremely difficult time because you didn't talk about my family wouldn't talk to me about it they didn't really understand it. And that's when we discussed, you need to get a job that might help and we tried many jobs. I even paid one place to let her work there. I paid them just to let her come and explain their equipment just so she have something to I think she got a job I worked at this verse restore.

But the people are not kind to her. I didn't understand her.

She was 20 years old.

She looked like she should be able to act like a grown woman and make decisions and she could and every day she would come home. I hate my job. My job and I don't want to do this so I was in Nashville shopping with my sister-in-law and we went into the thrift store and we got to talking to the owner and he had opened it to give his daughter a job because she had autism and we walked out the door and my sister-in-law looked at me and said you're going to do that. Orange took me four years I retired and I put my retirement money I had into it and open the store here in Oxford to employ persons living with mental illness and a safe work environment in hopes of helping them achieve independence and self-respect. Cassie was thrilled. She was very excited that she wasn't an aftermarket parts restore anymore. We start out with two employees. I had started getting donations for open store and so we had a few things not a lot better the first day we opened a light he stole from me. The very first Anaheim like gosh hadn't thought about that everything we fail is donated. We don't find anything we have to depend on the people in the community to donate. There were lots of paydays on Thursday night@Lord please put the money in the bank because I dyes tomorrow have and we always managed to make payroll. I always think paint but we always managed to pay the employees. It was a real learning process. We really struggle financially just to get by and keep our doors open.

But when the pandemic people work on cleaning out the closets and their addicts and their garages. Cassie and I and my niece worked at the store every day just to keep the donations on the parking lot because people are bringing them in.

Not only did we get all the donations people learned about the didn't know about and since then we are doing really well today we have about 15 employees.

It's very rewarding. Most of my employees have been there a long time. At one young man that's worked with ever since we open. He and Cassie were principally open and I love working there.

I do a good job but it's like a new day every day because just because you told somebody that does go in the floral section 1. I the next day you have to tell him again. Sometimes my customers will mistake my employees for me and rated and I'll pull them aside and I'll explain the situation and here's our brochure. This is what were about most of the time their very understanding and their apologetic but we do have people that just downright rated and not to cite.

We are here to give these people a safe work environment where they can feel comfortable and it's not tolerated because all we want is to be to be treated with kindness.

That's that's it. I worked very hard several I have to say okay you need to write because I worked hard.

The joke around the store is some days when we will be overwhelmed. My niece helped me from the beginning she would say would you please put Brian for furniture because God always supplies I knew when I walked at that door Nashville. That's what he wanted me today. I didn't have any idea how was I had been through so much with Cassie being sick and not being able to work at times, but we never went hungry. We never did without a pretty strong site and this he would and he he has is pretty awesome. I dream is open more stores and more cities and more people because I'm I don't know what Cassie would not know what the other kids on kids they're not kids or young adults, but I don't know what they would have a place to go to have a young man came to me at the time he can Change in his confidence is greater and greater is the work and now he has lived out of his mother's home has moved to Nashville and is working at a store assistant manager, and it just thrills me because look what he's and had he said it home and not done any thing it would be in such a way and expect to impart. I take no credit for this all to God. Peace issues in man, I just tell Cass some good has come from the heart ache and pain and a great job on that piece by medicine and a special thanks to Donna Howard, the founder of holding hands resale shop right here in Oxford Mississippi. We tell stories from all around the country. Every once in a while you'll hear stories right where we live to Oxford is a beautiful small town about an hour south of Memphis, Tennessee, and well, like all communities we come together we need to in my goodness finding out that your daughter at the age of 14 is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia is a tough one. What you do about it. Will Donna. She taught us all what to do about and she learned about it from someone else in Nashville taught her what to do about a beautiful mother daughter story. Donna Howard story her daughter Cassie story to hear in our American stories.

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Your 1948 as a supposedly 42-year-old. Only God knows how Cleveland with where the world served by Cleveland fans get to hear me say this, but it was the last time that Cleveland won the World Series was 1948 were Satchel Paige and thought Satchel should have been working six and one with a 2.4 ERA. His rookie season at age 42, which means he was likely close to, never told his real late and quite frankly I'm not convinced that is really fast because there were a lot of folks particularly likable for the deep South know how old was born July 7, 1906, which I absolutely do not mandate here in 1982 likely C7 foot long topical battle I believe was born sometime in the early to mid 1890s in Mobile, Alabama, like virtually everyone of that era not born in the hospital people at home to admit and that birth record was typically In the back page of the family Bible now according to Satchel the goat that paid out the Bible. No repose requested, how old would you be if you didn't know how old you are, that age is simply mind over matter. If you don't mind it don't matter and that is how he led his life now in his prime play clock's fastball hundred 5 miles out, but what really made satchel special right now. 105 pretty double special special with 105 with pinpoint control.

He could put it exactly where he wanted to put it and I am not talking about just like strikes To set the target.warm up in the bowl. Like most peaches do drawing to the catcher across home plate with a stick of foil discussed the catcher would sit chewing the rap on top of home plate and where ever the catcher moved the chewing gum wrapper satchel right over the top of the chewing, he was absolutely chilled. I guess all the time that will never be another Leroy Satchel Paige is not someone who combines the longevity by his estimation of the piston over 2600 recorded some 55 no-hitters and only God knows how many strikeouts and a charisma seven.

Also back it up. And so Satchel had made his pitches, so he didn't have fastball, curveball, change of new Satchel had what he called his midnight cripple yet to hop up yet the bad dodger hesitation. Yet the long time short time to jump ball trouble ball. The radial ball, the one the ball to do and it also had a call is ball why he called it the people because it is what I wanted to. When I wanted to be all my pictures were they come into the museum. They better develop themselves a baseball and so he was so amazing. One of my favorite stories relative to Satchel.

They were playing the Denver Post tournament. Satchel Paige All-Stars versus an all-white semi pro team from the Coors brewery and Buck O'Neil was playing first base for Sacramento's All-Stars and he says the first kid from the Coors team gets into the batter's box did examine satchel throws a fastball kid swung as hard as he could dribble down at third base line. It stays fair. He beats it out and gets it and feel book says about that time one of the kids from the Coors dugout steps out on top of the dugout steps and he yells out nothing but an overrated well satchel snake may have a nickname his name famously for buccal meal was Nancy. That's a whole another story. Read that story anyway so look forward first basis is, but he said Nancy Bacchus at first base. He turns and motions for the outfield to take a couple steps is not Nancy bring up all the way, the doctor, there were seven guys kneeling around about page and the catch and Satchel strike out the side of nine straight pitches looks into the Coors dugout and says overrated Dr. Hayes said this, he was embarrassed all the guys came out to apologize to Scott to let his teammate but buccal meal for today.if you had one game to win and any choice of any picture from any error legendary Leroy Satchel Paige said you might be needed when it was a mess around when he was locked and loaded for get about.

But as Satchel. There were a lot of Satchel Paige is that play in this league known as the niggling and it is so very fitting that we now have a place with their contributions not only transport they remembered, but their contributions to our society. And again it is at a time when there's only a handful of these legendary athletes deal with delight. World War II, many of them were somewhat stood at risk was that the story was going to die when that last niggling left the face of this, we can allow tell my guess all the time museum to some it in great job as always by Monty Montgomery on the production. Special thanks also to Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro leagues baseball Museum in Kansas City Missouri out of segregation. Bob said Rose triumph, and indeed the African-American rebuttal to the major-league baseball's refusal to let African-Americans play we start our only nobody more perfectly represented that leak the talents. Then Leroy Satchel Paige 2600 wins hundred and 5 mile an hour fastball story of Leroy Satchel Paige on our Americans