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...When Bob Feller first went to the Cleveland Indians 15 years ago, he was the 17-year-old boy wonder of the majors, who mowed down opposing batters with a blazing fireball. He was still trying to burn them in long after his arm grew old and his speed ball slower, hit bottom in 1949 by winning barely half his games. This year, Bob Feller, no longer a thrower, but a crafty pitcher, is well up the comeback trail. Last week he chalked up his 17th victory of the year (against four defeats), to lead the major leagues in games...
...National League, Outfielder Clyde Vollmer was no great shakes as a hitter. Waived into the American League, he started to break up ball games for the Boston Red Sox, fortnight ago knocked in the winning run in three successive games. Last week, Vollmer beat Cleveland (and Pitcher Bob Feller) with a 16th inning grand-slam home run. It was the twelfth game Vollmer had won for Boston, and left the Red Sox just .009 behind the league-leading Yankees...
...razz me much any more. When I started fogging my fast ball in there, they quit." And she is doing all right at bat: she has whacked three home runs in nine games, and her current batting average is .700. Last week, Alice emulated her idol, Bob Feller, by pitching a no-hitter. Southpaw Alice, whose opinion of her teammates' ability is not high ("Our shortstop can't catch the ball, and our catcher's terrible, too . . . The boys should practice more"), did it the hard way. She struck out every batter...
Cloveland has waited out injuries to Luke Easter, Bob Feller, and Larry Doby. But its percentage has risen well over .100 points. Boston has replaced Walt Dropo in the lineup with Clyde Vollner. And Dropo never turned in such an exhibition of the utmost value to the team as Vollner has in the past weeks. But Boston's pace has been steady, on the whole, with minor spurts counteracting minor slumps. Chicago, of course, has slipped out of the picture in a sudden two-week debacle...
...Pitcher: Feller, Cleveland (14-3) Batter: Minoso, Chicago (.344) Runs Batted In: Williams, Boston (81) Home Runs: Zernial, Philadelphia...