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Bob Feller honored with annual MLB award
Late Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller is being honored by Major League Baseball with an annual award named for him.
The Bob Feller Act of Valor Award will be given each year to a major leaguer and Hall of Famer who displays good character, assists those less fortunate, supports U.S. servicemen and women and conducts himself with dignity on and off the field. The U.S. Navy will give...
Via AP on Fox
March 28, 2013
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Baseball reference summarizes Bob Lemon’s career as a tale of three stories: one as a weak hitting infielder, one as a dominant sinker ball pitcher and one as a solid MLB manager. It is easily forgotten how he served in the US Navy in World War II and was one of the most dominant pitchers on the Cleveland Indians staff which included Bob Feller. Lemon won just 207 games for his...
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Gaylord Perry throws spitball and Feller makes his first start on This Day in Baseball
Grease is the word:
August 23, 1982, Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners is caught putting a foreign substance on the ball. Long suspected of throwing a “spitball”, Perry is ejected from a game for the first and only time in his career.
August 23, 1936, future Hall of Famer Bob Feller makes his first major league start and strikes out the first eight batters...
Three no-hitters were thrown on This Day in Baseball
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Did World War II save Bob Feller’s pitching career?
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Boys in the Hall: Bob Feller
Last week we introduced the Boys in the Hall series that FOXSports.com is running about several Baseball Hall of Fame members. The series, which is presented by Subway (which is sponsoring this post), featured a profile on Duke Snider last week. This week we’re excited to highlight the career of Bob Feller, who was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game.
Feller...
Today in 1941: Indians’ Bob Feller Highest Paid MLB Player Making $40,000
From the Associated Press via the Tuscaloosa News, we find that Cleveland Indians’ starting pitcher Bob Feller is in fact still the highest paid player in the game despite some consternation surrounding said topic.
Coincidentally, this January 23, 1941 report arrives in the column next to a report surrounding the wife of George Herman “Babe” Ruth stating that her husband...
This Day In MLB History…
October 26th, 1940:
Tigers’ slugging left fielder Hank Greenberg (.340, 41, 150) is named the American League’s Most Valuable Player with Indian hurler Bob Feller (27-11- 2.61) finishing second. Having won the award in 1935 as a first baseman, ‘Hammerin’ Hank’ becomes the first player to win another MVP playing a different position.
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