Word: feller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feller's fast ball is fast. It was timed recently and registered a speed of ico m.p.h. Last year, his fifth in major-league baseball. Bob Feller won 27 games for the Cleveland Indians-a record unmatched by any other big-leaguer. He also led the American League in strike-outs (263) and earned-run averages (2.62). Some experts consider 22-year-old Bob Feller the pitchin'est pitcher that ever lived...
...Indian Owner Alva Bradley, Bob Feller is an excellent investment. On days when Feller is scheduled to pitch, ballpark attendance swells 50% to 200%. Last week, when Robert William Andrew Feller signed his contract for the coming season, Owner Bradley grinned from ear to ear. "You can safely say," he told newshawks, "that Feller's salary is the highest that has ever been paid a pitcher." Sportswriters, well aware that Lefty Grove's 1931 salary of $27,500 was baseball's all-time pitching high, promptly set Feller's salary...
...close to doing it again. Playing their last three games of the season in Cleveland, Detroit needed only one game to win the pennant. But the odds were 2-to-1 against their winning the first game. For in the opener they had to stand up to Fireball Bob Feller...
...with eggs, eggplants, cauliflowers, fruit. They were there to get back at the Tigers for calling the Indians Crybabies, Boohoo Indians and Papeese (plural for papoose). As soon as the Tigers went on the field they were pelted from the stands. By the time Rudy York smacked one of Feller's pitches for a two-run homer, the diamond looked like a vegetable plate...
Harvard scouts returned from a weekend trip to Amherst with glowing tales of the punch which the Lord Jeffs pack this fall. Messrs. Feller, Clark, and Stahl describe a rugged Amherst line in front of Bob Blood, admittedly a better running back at the present time than any Harvard gridder...