The Pitcher and the DictatorSoon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easy money to play a short baseball tournament in support of the countrys dictator, Rafael Trujillo. As it turned out, the money wasnt so easy. After Paige and his friends arrived on the island, they found themselves under the