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...baseball's record books Lefty Grove's latest victory might have gone down as the best performance of 1940's opening day, were it not for a dimple-chinned kid young enough to be his son: 21-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians. Like Grove, Feller is his team's No. 1 pitcher and was therefore assigned to start the Indians' opener, against the White Sox in Chicago's Comiskey Park...
Among his audience there was no President, but, in a box near home plate, were three spectators young Feller was just as anxious to please: his parents and his kid sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...
...stick a feller thru...
...Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...Feller (April 19, 1937). On April 24 Cleveland's 18-year-old ace pitcher injured his arm, pitched a few innings on May 18, was idle until the first week in July...