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...Cleveland's Municipal Stadium a fortnight ago, 61,523 fans looked on glumly as Bob Feller got his lumps. The New York Yankees clubbed him for seven runs in the first inning. In the press box somebody cracked that the catcher was throwing the ball back harder than Feller was throwing it in. Was the Cleveland Indians' great pitcher washed up at 30? As he plodded off to the shower, with the Yankees still at bat, Bob Feller was the droop-shouldered picture of discouragement...
...Feller (with one victory against six de feats) was not the only Cleveland base-bailer who was having trouble. For a while it seemed that most of the other Indians, spectacular world champions of 1948, were turning up their toes. After they had lost 17 of their first 29 games, the club's publicity-minded president, Bill Veeck, announced that they were going to start the season all over again. There was a mock flag-raising ceremony and the gag snapped some life into the weary Indians. Then the club slumped again; its hitting was sadly...
...third himself. The experiment worked; Keltner began hitting again when he came back. Then Boudreau (batting a frail .243) benched Mickey Vernon and moved over to first base. The Indians perked up and won six straight games, including one in which they built up a nine-run cushion for Feller in the first two innings...
...Feller himself, a confident, hard-boiled-businessman ballplayer, insisted there was nothing wrong with his arm that time could not cure. He had pulled a shoulder muscle in spring training at Tucson, while demonstrating Cleveland's pickoff play for photographers, and the arm stayed weak. Complete rest might have been the soundest treatment, but the Indians were loth to shelve their high-priced star; Right-Hander Feller took his pitching turn-and his lumps-without complaint...
Curves & Sliders. In Yankee Stadium this week, with 49,031 pairs of eyes upon him, Rapid Robert's arm felt stronger than it had all season. With a powerful motion, Feller fed the league-leading Yankees his old familiar assortment of stuff-sliders, fastballs, curves and change-ups. The Yankees got only one hit off him after the fourth inning, and Feller was still in there pitching at the end. The Indians won, 4-2, with Feller holding the fort until Teammate Vernon, back at first base, could unload a two-run homer in the eleventh inning. Feller...