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 loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
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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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