FromWayDowntown
12-15-2010, 11:19 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5924684
Indians legend Bob Feller dies at 92
CLEVELAND -- Bob Feller, the Iowa farm boy whose powerful right arm earned him the nickname "Rapid Robert" and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers during a Hall of Fame career with the Cleveland Indians, has died. He was 92.
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Undoubtedly one of the greats, but somehow he's not one of those pitchers who is always named in discussions of the greatest pitchers ever -- at least in my experience. But for 4 years of military service, he likely wins somewhere around 350 games and strikes out somewhere in the neighborhood of 3500 hitters, which would have put him in the top 10 in those categories. Numbers aside, the real testament to his greatness is in Tim Kurkjian's column about Feller's death:
"He was the best pitcher I ever faced,'' Ted Williams once told me.
Indians legend Bob Feller dies at 92
CLEVELAND -- Bob Feller, the Iowa farm boy whose powerful right arm earned him the nickname "Rapid Robert" and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers during a Hall of Fame career with the Cleveland Indians, has died. He was 92.
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Undoubtedly one of the greats, but somehow he's not one of those pitchers who is always named in discussions of the greatest pitchers ever -- at least in my experience. But for 4 years of military service, he likely wins somewhere around 350 games and strikes out somewhere in the neighborhood of 3500 hitters, which would have put him in the top 10 in those categories. Numbers aside, the real testament to his greatness is in Tim Kurkjian's column about Feller's death:
"He was the best pitcher I ever faced,'' Ted Williams once told me.