Word: feller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball's record books Lefty Grove's latest victory might have gone down as the best performance of 1940's opening day, were it not for a dimple-chinned kid young enough to be his son: 21-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians. Like Grove, Feller is his team's No. 1 pitcher and was therefore assigned to start the Indians' opener, against the White Sox in Chicago's Comiskey Park...
Among his audience there was no President, but, in a box near home plate, were three spectators young Feller was just as anxious to please: his parents and his kid sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...
That night, wherever baseball fans gathered, all pre-season posers were eclipsed by one absorbing question: Will Bob Feller turn out to be the greatest pitcher of all time...
...stick a feller thru...