Word: feller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babe Ruth made his big-league debut in 1914. The character who, 23 years later, seemed highly likely to develop into an even more prodigious figure upon the U. S. scene is Cleveland's Robert William Feller, who last year made his big-league debut at the age of 17. This year Feller is not only the youngest regular pitcher currently functioning in the major leagues, but also the youngest in big-league history. This alone would make him a noteworthy figure, but it is only one of Pitcher Feller's qualifications for baseball immortality...
...addition to being the game's youngest pitcher he is also, to all appearances, its best. Strikeouts are to a baseball pitcher what home runs are to a batter- the most spectacular possible evidence of skill. In his first regular major-league game last year Feller struck out 15 batters, one less than the American League record, set by Rube Waddell 28 years before. Modern major-league strikeout record is 17, made by Dizzy Dean in 1933. In his third week of major-league play, against the Philadelphia Athletics, Feller broke the American League record, equaled Dean...
...Moines, in 1935, a scout for the Cleveland Indians discovered a sandlot pitcher named Robert Feller, who, although he was not yet 17, seemed promising enough to hire. Following the customary procedure, Feller was given a contract with the Fargo-Moorhead Club of the Northern League. Before he had played a game with Fargo-Moorhead, Cleveland had him transferred to New Orleans. Before he had played a game for New Orleans Cleveland arranged for Feller, while still young enough to have his father sign his contracts and be prevented from playing minor-league baseball because his family wanted...
...from being delighted by Feller's prowess, Cleveland was alarmed. Other clubs promptly offered to buy him. When Cleveland refused to sell, other club-owners raised the question of whether Cleveland really had any title to Feller in the first place. A minor-league club protested to Tsar Landis...
With Robert Levi '38 presiding as temporary chairman, a temporary executive committee was formed. The members elected to it were Hume Dow '38, William T. Dean, Jr. '37, David E. Feller '38, Robert S. Levy '38, Basil Pollitt '40, Robert R. Ross '37, Boris Yuchu '38, and Margaret Harriss, Radcliffe...