CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: “You’ll never hear me complain about my time in the service. Baseball is insignificant when it comes to war.”
Bob Feller's powerful right arm earned him the nickname 'Rapid Robert' and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers.
BARBARA KLEIN: Feller was once asked: “What is the most important game you ever won?” He answered: “World War Two.”
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STEVE EMBER: Bob Feller was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in nineteen sixty-two. Seven years later, professional baseball celebrated its one hundredth anniversary at the All-Star Game. Feller was honored as baseball’s greatest living right-handed pitcher.
He spoke out about protecting baseball’s standards of fairness. He opposed admitting players to the Hall of Fame if they had used performance-enhancing drugs.
BARBARA KLEIN: Bob Feller continued his connection with the Cleveland Indians as a “goodwill ambassador.” He appeared at the team’s spring training games. He helped train young pitchers. He played catch in the field while wearing his easily recognizable number nineteen uniform. He also talked to baseball fans, often signing balls or pictures of him as a player. Feller often appeared at the team’s “Fantasy Camps.” This is where baseball fans pay a lot of money to spend a week playing baseball with former players.
In two thousand nine, at the age of ninety, he put on his Indians uniform one more time. He pitched to three batters in the first Baseball Hall of Fame Classic, a game in Cooperstown between former major leaguers.
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