Posted on 12/15/2010 7:31:21 PM PST by Keith in Iowa
WHO-TV in Des Moines is reporting that the "Van Meter Heater", Iowa's greatest-ever baseball player, Bob Feller has died in a Cleveland hospice at the age of 92
Sad to hear.
Link: http://www.whotv.com/news/who-story-bob-feller-passes-120910,0,2820382.story
Hall of Fame pitcher, Bob Feller, died tonight of leukemia at age 92. The former Major League Baseball star has been in hospice care in Cleveland for nearly two weeks.
The native of Van Meter, Iowa struck out 15 batters in is major league debut in 1936 at age 17, and went on to a career of monumental proportions. Feller won 266 games, struck out 2,581 hitters and helped the Cleveland Indians to a World Series title in 1948. Cleveland has not won a World Series title since.
He was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY in 1962 and opened the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter in 1995. He remained an active part of the Indians organization through the 2010 season.
Just heard this on ESPN as well. Sad to hear..RIP
Rapid Robert... Godspeed....
Saw him play in an old-timers game in the 80s.
He threw out the first pitch in Cleveland this April, so he was able to live life to the end.
He will be missed.
I saw that he had been moved into hospice care a few weeks ago, and figured it wouldn’t be long...RIP, Bob.
Rapid Robert . the good ol days of baseball . . .he’s one I had figured had passed long time ago. 92 wow.
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A tremendous talent and American patriot. He is from my father’s generation, the Greatest Generation. I met him at an exhibition at a mall many years ago and he was wearing his Indians uniform. I remember thinking that he was a real American hero, a very dignified man. It is sad to see the greats of the Greatest Generation pass away.
Just WOW! What a thrill that must have been. Talk about being an instant hometown hero.
RIP
Damn. I knew it was coming. But still, just damn.
RIP.
Sorry to hear of his passing, but he had a long, fine life which can be celebrated. I remember collecting his card as a kid......
Feller was one of my heroes. As a sandlot pitcher in the ‘60s and early ‘70s, I always wanted to throw as hard as Feller. Never saw him play, but heard the stories from my Dad.
RIP
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Stayed in a B & B that was the first house he built for his parents when he got famous. Still remember that house. It had some things that were modern for the time, but weren’t modern when I was there, like lights that came on when you opened closet doors, that sort of thing. Also I think it was built on the old Feller farm, so the barn would have been the one where him and his father used to throw to each other. Cool memories.
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