Bob Feller

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Just a great old dude who kept on trucking.

Links to pages 23 and 24 of Bob Feller’s Strikeout Story, where he describes a train ride from Cleveland to Philadelphia on his first night in the majors (he was never in the minors!).

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wd-wjWZnHGcC&pg=PA23

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wd-wjWZnHGcC&pg=PA24

Link to page 2, “The Denver Rocket” ? on the Rock Island Line.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Wd-wjWZnHGcC&pg=PA2

Photos

http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/press,7868

http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/u?/press,7916

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I don’t know what was going on, first this thread was here, then it wasn’t.

I just wanted to thank you for getting this information so quickly after the announcement of the passing of an amazing baseball player. Thank you.

Bruce

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The baseball community will sorely miss this great ambassador also known as “Rapid Robert”.

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My memory of Feller was when I was 8 years old watching him and Bob Lemon doing excercises in left field of Connie Mack Stadium, Philadelphia on a day they were in to play the Athletics. I remeber that about the day and watching PRR trains a half mile away from the stands.

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He could be quite opinionated - some might say “cantankerous” - about baseball, particularly his feeling that current players don’t respect the game the way they should, but you have to admit he certainly had a lot of experience to base his opinions on.

He was born the same year as my parents (1918). Interesting to think what his career numbers might have been had he not lost 1942-3-4 and most of 1945 to the Navy. His 266 wins would have been well over 300 for example.