Word: fellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland (Feller) 12, New York...
...Netherlands, sport fans know Johannes Hendrikus Urbanus as well as Americans know Urbanus' hero, Bob Feller. Like Feller, 24-year-old Urbanus is a pitcher. He plays on Amsterdam's Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (Perseverance Leads to Victory) team. The O.V.V.O. nine, behind Urbanus' consistent pitching, has won three straight Dutch championships. Last week "Hannie" was the envy of some 5,000 Dutch Honkbal players. At the invitation of the Knickerbocker, a Dutch-American magazine, Hannie flew to the U.S. to spend a month of spring training with the New York Giants, National League champions...
...Hannie never has to resort to such strategy, because ordinarily he simply strikes out half the opposing batters. He has no change-of-pace pitch or slow ball, only a curve ("which I invented myself") and a fast ball ("which I hope some day to be as good as Feller"). Because Honkbal is played on soccer fields, Hannie has never had the advantage of pitching from the raised (15 in.) mound, but since equipment is scarce in The Netherlands, he has usually had the advantage of pitching with a grimy, hard-to-see ball...
Pitcher: Feller, Cleveland (22-7) Batter: Fain, Philadelphia (.332) Runs Batted In: Williams, Boston (116) Zernial, Philadelphia (116) Home Runs: Zernial, Phila...
...after Cleveland won the second pennant in its history, Feller lost two games to Boston, had to be taken...