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Bonham is no strike-out specialist like Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean or Lefty Grove. He has neither a fireball nor a tantalizing curve. But two weapons he can rely on are control and a freak pitch known as a fork ball (a slow ball that sinks and sometimes breaks away). Oldtimers say Bonham's fork ball can't compare with the one Bullet Joe Bush used to throw for the Athletics and Yankees. Still, used as a change-of-pace ball, Tiny's forker has fooled plenty of batters...
Except for this wartime note, broadcast by big-league clubs, the 1942 baseball season opened this week much as usual. Some headliners were missing-notably Detroit's Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...
...There are also four programs of records on local stations, of which none is the 920 Club and one is the Crimson Network's Nine O'Clock Jump. Then there is WEEI's all-night session after one o'clock, guided by an amusing night owl named Sherman Feller. More on the order of the Crimson Network's program is the Swing Nocturne on WCOP at ten-thirty Mon.-Wed.-Sat., at which Bill Ingalls, Boston correspondent of Downbeat, usually plays plenty of fine small-band recordings...
...Feller of the Cleveland Indians enlisted in the Naval Reserve, was sworn in by Lieut. Commander Gene Tunney...
...Feller of the Cleveland Indians said he was going to enlist instead of waiting for his draft call, expected in February...