Word: feller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play in dispute was Feller's attempt to pick Boston's Phil Masi off second base during the eighth inning. Umpire Bill Stewart of the National League called Masi safe, and he went on to score the Braves' winning--and only--run on a single by Holmes...
Cloveland Manager Lou Boudreau, who handled Feller's throw, had argued with Stewart over his decision, and Associated Press pictures of the game indicate that he may have been right. They show Boudreau putting the tag on Masi as he slid back into second. Stewart could not be reached for comment...
...prescriptions required a dead cat: "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three . . . and when they're taking the feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow cat, I'm done with ye!' That'll fetch any wart...
...hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that Paige was the relief man the league-leading Indians so desperately needed...
...Cleveland, the big question of the week was: "What's the matter with Bob Feller?" The great man, whose pitching arm commands baseball's highest pay ($87,000), had lost five straight. The guesses ranged from a "temporary slump" to "natural deterioration" after a dozen years. Said Feller himself: "I'm not going to answer questions like that. I'm not going to throw gasoline on a fire that's going like hell anyway." He canceled all outside activities, including autograph parties at stores selling his book, How to Pitch. This week against the Philadelphia...