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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 2576739, member: 33176&quot;]&quot;Though statistics were not meticulously maintained for most of Bell&#039;s career, it is clear that he was known as one of the best players in Negro league baseball. As Paige noted in his autobiography, <i>Maybe I&#039;ll Pitch Forever</i>, &quot;If schools had known Cool Papa was around and if Cool Papa had known reading real good, he&#039;d have made the best track man you ever saw.&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Papa_Bell#cite_note-Paige-15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Papa_Bell#cite_note-Paige-15" rel="nofollow">[15]</a> Anecdotes about Bell&#039;s speed are still widely circulated; some are not easily believable, while others are thought to be true. Paige liked to reference a story from one hotel at which he and Bell stayed. There was a short delay between flipping the light switch off and the lights actually going off due to faulty wiring, sufficient for Bell to jump into bed in the interim. Leaving out the explanatory details, Paige liked to say that Bell was so fast he could turn off the light and be under the covers before the room got dark. Legend also holds that Bell hit a ball up the middle of the field and that he was struck by the ball as he slid into second base.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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