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...number in the draft, had been examined at St. Petersburg, pronounced physically fit. Last week, in time's nick, Rizzuto's home-town draft board granted his request for deferment (because of dependents), gave the approaching baseball season the most spectacular rookie since Bob Feller...
Outfielder Greenberg was not to be baseball's only sacrifice. The Phillies stood to lose their best pitcher, Hugh Mulcahy. The Cleveland Indians learned with mixed feelings that Outfielder Beau Bell, 32, had been deferred because of varicose veins. Their star pitcher, Bobby Feller, 22, had Order No. 2,857, was almost certain of getting through the season uncalled...
...Indian Owner Alva Bradley, Bob Feller is an excellent investment. On days when Feller is scheduled to pitch, ballpark attendance swells 50% to 200%. Last week, when Robert William Andrew Feller signed his contract for the coming season, Owner Bradley grinned from ear to ear. "You can safely say," he told newshawks, "that Feller's salary is the highest that has ever been paid a pitcher." Sportswriters, well aware that Lefty Grove's 1931 salary of $27,500 was baseball's all-time pitching high, promptly set Feller's salary...
That guesstimate started something. Owner Walter O. Briggs of the Detroit Tigers, considerably irked, announced that his pitcher Buck Newsom had been paid $30,000 last year, would get even more this year. Owner Bradley stuck to his big guns. Said he: "Feller is still the highest paid pitcher in baseball...
Lest the fire die, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, after a few days' snooping, announced, from an "unimpeachable source," that Bob Feller's pay for 1941 will...