Word: feller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major-league baseball teams passed the season's one-third mark last week, the leading pitcher was neither Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, Harry Brecheen nor Ewell Blackwell, nor any of the other established celebrities of the mound. On the figures, the best pitcher was a hooknosed, six-foot left-hander named Warren Spahn; habitat Braves Field, Gaffney Street, Boston...
...Odessa. Telephones rang and excited voices demanded, "Give us back Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov!" The staid Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud headlined excitedly: "Kidnaping in Odessa." Three of the city's leading football (i.e., soccer) heroes -as dear to Odessa as Williams to Boston or Feller to Cleveland-had disappeared...
...lunch counter after school and on weekends, is just the kind of kid the major leagues go after: big, cool and hardworking, with a good pair of hands. The scouts, baseball's ivory hunters, have seen plenty of high-school wonders flop in the big time-but Bobby Feller was only 17 when scouts found him in Van Meter, Iowa, and they always hope to find another. Among Bob Hansen's technical skills: a blinding fastball with which he mixes a tantalizing change of pace, a wide-breaking curve, a .461 batting average...
...first of a series of forums on the United Nations, the discussion on "How Strong is the U. N.?" was moderated by Milton Katz '27, Professor of Law. Abraham H. Feller, general counsel to the United Nations was the third speaker...
...longer in the major leagues; in 1941, it was the Cubs' "Mad Russian" Lou Novikoff, who has since gone back to the Pacific Coast League where he came from. There had also been publicized rookies who fared better: 1926's Mel Ott, 1937's Bobby Feller and 1936's Joe Di-Maggio. Drawls Clint Hartung: "I've made no promises and I've got nothing to live up to. Those sport writers will probably forget about me after I strike out a few times...