Bob Feller
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"Robert William Andrew Feller", nicknamed ""The Heater from Van Meter"", ""Bullet Bob"", and ""Rapid Robert"", was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) 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 pitched/innings and posted a Win–loss record (pitching)/win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average (ERA).

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Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it's funny, but right down in their heart, they don't think it's funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

I just reared back and let them go.