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In this passage, Wilkerson examines one of the costs of caste by telling the story of Satchel Paige, a talented pitcher who was excluded from playing Major League baseball because he was Black. Satchel Paige’s story speaks not just to caste’s illogic, but to its costs to the “advancement and glory” of entire societies. Paige was a talented and skilled pitcher who was confined to the Negro Leagues at the height of his power as a player, in the 1930s and 1940s. Because the Major Leagues were racially segregated, Paige—widely regarded today as one of the greatest pitchers of all…