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Bob Feller Biography

Robert William Andrew Feller (November 3, 1918 – December 15, 2010), nicknamed "The Heater from Van Meter", "Bullet Bob", and "Rapid Robert", was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted only by a four-year sojourn in the Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average (ERA).

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Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Greatest, Hitter, Player, Saw, Saws, Sports

My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Baseball, Father, Someday, Thinking

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

Baseball, Fun, League, Leagues, Navy

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

Cooperstown, Earth, Greatest, Place

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

Baseball, Day, Opportunity, Start, Yesterday

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

Ballpark, Golf, Heart, Life, Person, Player

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Back, Dice, Hero, Names, Roll, Soldier

I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.

Battleship, Class, Gun, Russia

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Baseball, Game, Insignificant, Sports, War

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Morning, Rooster, Roosters, Sunbeam, Ted, Trying

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Reading, Trying, Events, Touch, Current

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

Hero, Home, Return, Thinking, Thinks

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Apparently, Bestowed, Pitching, Sympathy, Yankees

When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

Good Day, Liable, Nice, Small, Sports

I just reared back and let them go.

Back, Let, Pitching, Reared

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Sports, Baseball, Thinking, Think, Colored

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn. . . If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

Baseball, Country, Juvenile, Kept, Pitching, Running

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Ball, Balls, Heaven, Sports, Stands, Threw

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

Buildings, Country, Europe, History, Like, Yankees

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

Blessed, Blessed Life, Forever, Life

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