“We would go to the Feller museum when he was alive and he would tell my now 20 year old son stories about having a steak dinner with Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth.”
Bob Feller was at a minor-league game in Winston-Salem in the early 1990s signing autographs. I took my then-girlfriend’s nephew to meet him and sign a couple of baseballs for us. I realized that nobody else was in line so I sat down next to him and started a conversation. I asked who the toughest batter was for him to get out. I expected him to say Ted Williams, but he said, without hesitation, Joe DiMaggio. I also talked with him about his Navy experiences in World War II. Very nice guy.
The museum would bring in a HOFer and Bob would be there. We met Boggs, Yount, Sandberg, Dawson and Bob would be sitting off to the side by himself. My father told him a story about meeting him because his father knew another Indian Mel Harder. Feller starts telling stories about former Omaha mayor Johnny Rosenblatt coming out to see them play in Chicago. Man had an amazing mind.