Robert William Andrew Feller was an American baseball pitcher. He played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. Feller threw no-hitters in 1940, 1946, and 1951. He helped the Indians win a World Series title in 1948 and an American League-record 111 wins in 1954. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
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Robert William Andrew Feller was an American baseball pitcher. He played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. Feller became the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before the age of 21. He threw no-hitters in 1940, 1946, and 1951. He helped the Indians win a World Series title in 1948 and an American League-record 111 wins and the pennant in 1954. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, on his first ballot appearance. He died in 2010 at age 92; he was a finalist for the Major League baseball All-Century Team in 1999. His career was interrupted by four years of military service in World War II, during which time he served as Chief Petty Officer aboard USS Alabama. 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. He was ranked 36th on Sporting News’s list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was named the publication’s \”greatest pitcher of his time\”. Feller played primarily as a shortstop or outfielder, emulating Rogers Hornsby’s batting stance. His catcher during this period was Nile Kinnick, who later won the Heisman Trophy in 1939 and became a member of the College Football Hall of fame. He also played for the Farmers Union team in the American Amateur Baseball Congress, and had 19 wins and four losses for Farmers Union one season.
His fastball was fast and fuzzy; it didn’t go in a straight line; it would wiggle and shoot around. Ted Williams called Feller \”the fastest and best pitcher I ever saw during my career. I didn’t know then that he was smart and had the heart of a lion, but I knew that I was looking at an arm the likes of which you see only once in a lifetime. \”: 375 Feller led the American League in wins six times and in strikeouts seven times. In 1946, he recorded 348 strikeouts, a total not exceeded for 19 years. In 1936, he was signed by Cy Slapnicka, a scout for the Indians, for one dollar and an autographed baseball. He continued to pitch for the Oakviews after a starting pitcher was injured; while doing so, he continued to play American Legion baseball. After a three-month investigation, the Indians awarded Feller’s contract to the Fargo-Moorhead Twins. He then moved to the New Orleans Pelicans, where he played from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted by a four-year engagement in the United States Navy. In 1956, he pitched for the New York Yankees, and was later named general manager of the Indians and transferred from Fargo to New York City. In 1957, he played for New York for a few exhibition games, along with outfielder Tommy Henrich, and semi-pro outfielder Alva Bradley.
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