Bob Feller - Rapid Robert - Obit

[BigH]

Bob Feller passed away at age 92 on 2010-12-16. A True Cleveland Indian through and through. I think it would be a nice way to spend a few minutes and read about him. You can try the article at the site below (Jim was a year ahead of me at Willoughby South High (Ohio). Jim Posnanski of Sports Illustrated wrote a great article as well (get it through CNN/sports) and there is a series that you can get through

http://www.cleveland.com

. Bob was an interesting man. I remember him coming to our Little League Opening ceremony - which he tirelessly did for so many of the towns and cities in the Cleveland area. A loss - but at 92, expected sometime soon . . . still

http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/12/16/sports/nh3394953.prt

 

[Ron]

BigH...yes, a loss to the baseball world. A gentleman, always...and one hell of a pitcher.

It would be great if today's baseball players were really students of the game, rather than just talented mercenaries.

 

[jheidt2543]

Good baseball players, like other good athletes, are freaks of nature. Their body and talent are inborn and rare, so people pay for those traits. It just happens that they are willing to pay more for a guy that can play baseball than a guy that can do engineering - that's life!


The “Wisdom” of Casey Stengel

“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice versa”

"What's the secret to platooning? There's not much to it.
You put a right-hand hitter against a left-hand pitcher and a left-hand hitter against a right-hand pitcher and on cloudy days you use a fastball pitcher."

"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game:
you can win or you can lose or it can rain."

“I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways”

"I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice."

"They brought me up to the Brooklyn Dodgers,
which at that time was in Brooklyn."

"Take those fellows over to that other diamond.
I want to see if they can play on the road."

"I love signing autographs. I'll signing anything but veal cutlets. My ball-point pen slips on veal cutlets."

 

[BigH]

A wise sage, eh?

 

[jheidt2543]

Not me, BigH, Casey!