Bob Feller
Bob Feller
Robert William Andrew Feller, nicknamed "The Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted only by a four-year sojourn in the Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth3 November 1918
CityVan Meter, IA
I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.
You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.
Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.
Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.
I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.