I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
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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.
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Birth: | 3rd November, 1918 |
Death: | 15th December, 2010 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Baseball Player |
Bob Feller was born in Van Meter, Iowa. He was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball 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.
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