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...admire him for his patience and individualized instruction. "He goes from one player to another," one pitcher observes, "regardless of whether that man happens to be a star." That's the way Stuffy wants it. "The most obscure boy may be a future great," he points out. "Take Bob Feller. There were only 13 boys in his senior class at high school." If there are any Fellers at Harvard, the new coach will probably find them. He's had plenty of experience...
...biggest income. On a salary-bonus arrangement, Pitcher Bob Feller made $82,000 last year. Feller (who won 19, lost 15 in a disappointing 1948 season) was still dickering with Veeck over his 1949 contract...
This opinion bears out this department's long-held thesis that good athletes are born and not made, although it may undermine the American Legion's baseball schemes, and wreak have with Bob Feller's royalties from "Strikeout Story...
...tightest World Series pitchers' duel since Art Nehf beat Sad Sam Jones in 1923. Sain kept feeding the Indians big, jug-handle curves, interspersed with little curves, until they were fit to be tied. His control was uncanny; he allowed four hits and not one walk. Feller, who pitched a two-hitter, gave up three bases on balls, which led to his undoing. He lost a heartbreaker...
...alarm of Clevelanders in the largest crowd (86,288) to watch a baseball game anywhere, any time. Boston batters, who at one stretch had gone 23 consecutive innings without scoring a run, got six in the seventh inning. They won the game, 11-5. Head down, Bob Feller walked to the showers, the first Cleveland pitcher to be shelled from...