brought Cleveland a new superstar in 17-year old pitcher Bob Feller, who came from Iowa with a dominating fastball.

*" Who is a Refugee and who is not – the Crisis of Identity as a Challenge to Protection " Online video of an address by Ms. Erika Feller, Director, Department of International Protection, UNHCR, in 2005

Among the many baseball players ( including well known stars ) who served during World War II were Moe Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial ( in 1945 ), Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams.

Box Socials ( 1991 ), an evocation of life in rural Alberta during the Great Depression and World War II, features a growing boy as its protagonist and the adventure of a hometown baseball hero who gets to bat against the great pitcher legend Bob Feller.

Feller was a prodigy who bypassed the minor leagues and entered the major leagues at the age of 17.

Landis made the decision partly due to the testimony of Feller and his father, who wanted his son to play for Cleveland and who had also told Landis he would take the issue to court.

He had hoped to serve on the USS Iowa, but nearly all servicemen from the state of Iowa had requested to be placed on that ship, and Feller was among those who was not selected as a crewmember.

By the late 1940s, Feller, who had obtained his pilot's license in 1939 at the age of 20, began to fly his Beechcraft Bonanza during home stands from his home in Gates Mills to Burke Lakefront Airport and then utilize a collapsible scooter to get to Municipal Stadium.

Masi scored the game's lone run on a Braves single and despite surrendering just two hits in the game, but Feller, who pitched just 85 pitches, and the Indians lost, 1 – 0 .< Ref name =" Pictures "> Photographs shown after the game showed Boudreau had tagged Masi out by two feet.

Said Feller, " Stewart was the only guy in the park who thought he was safe.

Legendary players who benefited from O ' Neill's guidance included Lou Boudreau, Bob Feller, Hal Newhouser, and Robin Roberts.

Feller issued an intentional walk to Eddie Stanky, who was replaced by Sibby Sisti.

Executive Producer Tony Loiacono, who later received the key to the city, brought Hall of Famers like Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson and Bob Feller to take on Hollywood Stars like Kelsey Grammer and Meatloaf in a charity game.

" Cramér mentions later work by Andrey Kolmogorov and William Feller but it was Cramér himself who developed Lundberg's ideas on risk and linked them to the emerging theory of stochastic processes.

In 1934 he pitched against an all-star team that included Jimmie Foxx and Heinie Manush, and later was manager of the Kansas City Royals, who played in the California Winter League against Bob Feller and other major leaguers.

At 22, she married songwriter / disc-jockey Sherm Feller, who assumed an active role in promoting her career.

At this time, her husband hosted radio station WEEI ’ s musical variety program Club Midnight, where Valentine found herself periodically taking over duties for the absent Feller, who had a fondness for cards.

Arguing that a French-speaking person could only understand Walloon with difficulty, especially in its eastern forms, Jules Feller ( 1859 – 1940 ) insisted that Walloon had an original " superior unity " which made it a language.

Feller had thrown a no-hitter eleven days earlier.

Ted Williams called Feller " the fastest and best pitcher I ever saw during my career ... He had the best fastball and curve I've ever seen.

Feller played catch daily with his father, and at eight years of age, had learned to throw a curve ball ; by age nine he could throw a ball.

Indians manager Steve O ' Neill had Denny Galehouse warmed up in the bullpen in case the 17-year old Feller had early troubles in his first start.

Chet Laabs had already been struckout by Feller four times in the game but would do it again, this time looking when Feller pitched a fastball past him, and Feller set a modern major league record of 18 strikeouts.

After the war had ended, Feller was discharged on August 22, 1945.

I had to pitch to Tommy Henrich, Charlie Keller and Joe DiMaggio in the ninth inning to get the Yankees out ," Feller said.

In the early 1950s, Cleveland had a starting pitching rotation which included Lemon, Bob Feller, Mike Garcia and Early Wynn.

Former teammate Bob Feller said, " Bob had a good curve, a good slider, and a vicious sinker pitch.

By this time he had become part of a strong pitching staff, forming – with Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia – one of the greatest pitching rotations in baseball history.

( In 1946, it was initially believed that Bob Feller's 348 strikeouts had broken Rube's single-season mark, but research into his 1904 season box scores revealed uncounted strikeouts that lifted him back above Feller.

In 1948, when the Indians won the American League pennant and World Series behind pitcher Bob Feller and shortstop / player-manager Lou Boudreau, the Indians set three Major League attendance records: they had the highest single season attendance, 2, 620, 627, which was not eclipsed until the 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers, largest regular season night game attendance of 72, 434 for the first major league start of Satchel Paige, and biggest World Series game attendance of 86, 288 for game 5 on October 10, 1948.

From 1949 into the 1950s, he guided what became known as the Indians ' " Big Four " pitching rotation, featuring Feller, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia ; Harder had successfully transformed Lemon from an infielder into a top pitcher while working with him in the mid-1940s, and he taught Wynn the breaking ball and changeup.

Unfortunately, Narleski had a simple problem: he was overshadowed by one of the greatest pitching staffs in major league history, the Indians Big Four Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Mike Garcia.

In Little Feller II ( July 7 ), the warhead was suspended only three feet above the ground and had a yield equivalent to only 22 tons of TNT.

Upon the conclusion of the 1939 season, Feller led the AL in wins ( 24 ), complete games ( 24 ) and innings pitched ( 296. 2 ) and led the majors for a second consecutive year in both walks ( 142 ) and strikeouts ( 246 ).

Feller also led the majors with 31 complete games and 320. 1 innings pitched.

Feller pitched a 4-hit game and earned a win in the Indians ' 4 – 2 victory.

He set franchise records for wins ( 223 ), games started ( 433 ) and innings pitched ( 3426-1 / 3 ) which were later broken by Bob Feller, and still holds the club record of 582 career games pitched ; he was among the American League's career leaders in wins ( 9th ), games ( 8th ) and starts ( 10th ) when he retired.

In 1994, he led the South Atlantic League with 18 wins ( a team record ), 174 strikeouts, and 185. 2 innings pitched while playing for Single-A Columbus ( Georgia ), earning him the Bob Feller Award as Cleveland's best minor league pitcher.

* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

Opening Day of the season featured a no-hitter from Feller against the Chicago White Sox.

Feller would record his second career no-hitter on April 30, 1946, against the New York Yankees.

Feller would record his third career no-hitter on July 1, 1951, against the Detroit Tigers.

On April 30 of that season, Indians pitcher Bob Feller no-hit the New York Yankees ; Feller later wrote Lemon's " daring catch " and " throwing to and doubling a man off second base " were key in " saving my " no-hitter.