Word: feller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...Feller (April 19, 1937). On April 24 Cleveland's 18-year-old ace pitcher injured his arm, pitched a few innings on May 18, was idle until the first week in July...
...Star game between the American League and the National League, baseball writers were ready to agree that their boy wonder, now 20, was all they had predicted. Chosen as one of the 25 players to represent the American League in the sport's mid-season classic, young Feller, suddenly waved into the game in the middle of the sixth inning to replace Tiger Tommy Bridges, found himself in a tough spot. The score was 3-to-1. The National Leaguers had the bases loaded-and only one man was out. Two runs would tie the score. But the Iowa...
...Cleveland star had only started to shine. For the rest of the game he held the crowd spellbound with his masterful control, his baffling change of pace. Not until the ninth inning did a National Leaguer get another hit. And that one Feller swiftly brought to naught by striking out Cardinal Mize and Cub Hack and winning the ball game for the American League...
Tapping out their stories, the baseball writers applauded Yankee Di Maggie's homerun and Yankee Gordon's seemingly impossible one-handed catch of hard-hitting Cardinal Medwick's line drive, but the headlines were all for Bob Feller. The dimple-chinned kid, who still sleeps in a nightgown, pouts when he is dissatisfied and goes to zoos for amusement, was at last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than...