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...Feller's fast ball is fast. It was timed recently and registered a speed of ico m.p.h. Last year, his fifth in major-league baseball. Bob Feller won 27 games for the Cleveland Indians-a record unmatched by any other big-leaguer. He also led the American League in strike-outs (263) and earned-run averages (2.62). Some experts consider 22-year-old Bob Feller the pitchin'est pitcher that ever lived...
...close to doing it again. Playing their last three games of the season in Cleveland, Detroit needed only one game to win the pennant. But the odds were 2-to-1 against their winning the first game. For in the opener they had to stand up to Fireball Bob Feller...
...with eggs, eggplants, cauliflowers, fruit. They were there to get back at the Tigers for calling the Indians Crybabies, Boohoo Indians and Papeese (plural for papoose). As soon as the Tigers went on the field they were pelted from the stands. By the time Rudy York smacked one of Feller's pitches for a two-run homer, the diamond looked like a vegetable plate...
Harvard scouts returned from a weekend trip to Amherst with glowing tales of the punch which the Lord Jeffs pack this fall. Messrs. Feller, Clark, and Stahl describe a rugged Amherst line in front of Bob Blood, admittedly a better running back at the present time than any Harvard gridder...
...been the cracks of journalistic small fry such as W. Livingston Larned of the White Plains (N. Y.) Reporter, who recently bawled: "Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light the Tin-Pan Alley tune mechanics and melody mongers.. . . 'Suppose we put a feller wavin' an American flag on the cover,' suggests Ike. . . . And Moe, turning from the practice piano, answers, 'You got something there. Big Boy.' " Comparatively restrained in his disapproval was Manhattan Minister Dr. Edgar Franklin Romig, who recently described the song as "mawkish," was promptly taken...