Indisputable, though, is this: Paige reached the major leagues at an age when most pitchers have long stopped stressing their rotator cuffs. Also inarguable: the 6-foot-3, 180-pound right-hander is remembered as much for his witticisms as his extraordinary pitching talent and longevity.
Only four black men and women were elected to the United States Senate in all of American history â former Sens. Edward William Brooke (R-MA) and Carol Moseley Braun (D-IL) join Booker in this very exclusive group, along with President Barack Obama.
Brooke, shown here in 1966, was the first black member of the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. Walters says the show probably never would have reached out to O'Donnell if Jones had remained on the program because there was such bad blood between the two women.