Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back with Cleveland's Indians last week after 44 months in the Navy, Feller brought out Cleveland's biggest baseball crowd in three years (46,477). Besides his old 100 m.p.h. fireball, he showed the fans new confidence and control. Because he no longer knew the batters, he had to confer frequently with Catcher Frankie Hayes-whose dope was apparently sound. Feller struck out twelve of the league-leading Detroit Tigers (including Hank Greenberg and Rudy York twice apiece), gave only four hits, walked five, won in a 4-2 breeze. Said he, afterwards: "I will be able...
Thus in 1937 wrote Robert Ralph Young, a financial wizard given to homespun free verse. He had worked hard gathering unto himself the mammoth railroad empire created by Cleveland's famed, buccaneering Van Sweringen brothers, and it seemed about to slip from his hands...
Detroit's Tiger-hold on the American League was slipping. The Senators, with their four knuckle-ball pitching wonders, were up close. The White Sox, with something not apparent to the naked eye, were a third-place threat. And now Cleveland's amazing Indians jumped from seventh to fourth (winning 19 out of their last 28 games). The season had five weeks to go, and it looked like another dogfight to the finish...
...hope and horror, exactly what might do it: star players fresh out of G.I. uniforms. Washington had already been blessed with the return of Outfielder Buddy Lewis; Lewis was hitting a fancy .356. Charlie ("King Kong") Keller had come back, too, but too late to save the staggering Yankees. Cleveland's warpath Indians, who had just reclaimed (from a Texas shipyard) a potent hitter in Les Fleming, this week were due to get the cream of the crop- Fireball Bob Feller...
...think Richard Barringer did an excellent job in ranking the U.S. Presidents in TIME [July 23]. He places Washington and Lincoln in the first class in achievement and moral stature. In the second rank he places Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson. A third category includes Jefferson, Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt...