Because of his fastball, Bob Feller had several nicknames, including “Rapid Robert” and “Bullet Bob.” He won one hundred seven major league games before his twenty-third birthday. Experts said Bob Feller was baseball’s most exciting player since Babe Ruth in the nineteen twenties.
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller signs a baseball for Navy Captain Frank McCulloch.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: “When I picked up the ball and it feels nice and light and small, I know I’m going to have a good day. But if I pick it up and it’s big and heavy, I know I’m liable to get into a little trouble.”
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BARBARA KLEIN: Bob Feller pitched on the final day of the nineteen thirty-eight season against the Detroit Tigers. He struck out eighteen hitters to set a new major league record. Today, the record is twenty. In nineteen forty, he became the first American league pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter on opening day, the first game of the season.
Then, on December seventh, nineteen forty-one, Japanese forces attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States entered World War Two. Two days later Bob Feller halted his career to join the Navy. He was the first major league baseball player to volunteer for military service.
He served as the chief of an anti-aircraft gunnery crew on the battleship USS Alabama. He missed three full baseball seasons and most of a fourth.
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