Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:36:16 GMT — CLEVELAND (AP) " Teenage pitching sensation, World War II hero, outspoken Hall of Famer and local sports treasure. Bob Feller was all of them. One of a kind, he was an ...

CHICAGO – Bob Feller, all seven wonders of the baseball pitching world combined, opened the 1940 baseball season by hurling a no-hit contest. The 21-year-old pitching star from Van Meter, already the ...

When Bob Feller was growing up on a farm in Van Meter, Iowa, in the 1920s and ?30s, his father built him a baseball diamond on that farm and invited the neighborhood kids to play. His father caught ...

Bob Feller acknowledges the crowd before the Hall of Fame Classic baseball game in Cooperstown, N.Y. Feller, who pitched for the Cleveland Indians, died Wednesday at the age of 92. The life of Bob ...

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Teenage pitching sensation, World War II hero, outspoken Hall of Famer and local sports treasure. Bob Feller was all of them. One of a kind, he was an American original. Blessed with ...

Starting in December and ending on Opening Day, Joe Posnanski will count down the 100 greatest baseball players by publishing an essay on a player every day for 100 days. In all, this project will ...

For most baseball fans, the season ends when the World Series final putout is made. But in 1946, the lucky residents of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Des Moines, Denver, ...

CLEVELAND — Bob Feller, the Iowa farm boy whose powerful right arm earned him the nickname "Rapid Robert" and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers during a Hall of Fame career with the ...

Feller was part of a vaunted Indians' rotation in the 1940s and '50s with fellow Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Early Wynn. He finished with 2,581 career strikeouts, led the American League in ...

Bob Feller, the Iowa farm boy whose powerful right arm earned him the nickname ''Rapid Robert'' and made him one of baseball's greatest pitchers during a Hall of Fame career with the Cleveland Indians ...