This is a very nice article about Bob Feller, one heck of a man and baseball player.
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At 88, Feller is an American folk hero whose story is soaked in baseball, patriotism, family and farming. He's also the longest-tenured living Baseball Hall of Famer, having been inducted in 1962. This weekend ? as he does around this time every year ? he'll go to Cooperstown, N.Y., for the Hall's induction ceremonies. This year's honorees, Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr., will be the 113th and 114th to be inducted since Feller joined the Hall 45 years ago.
Feller learned to pitch by throwing a ball against the hog barn on his dad's farm near Van Meter, Iowa. In 1936, at age 17, between his junior and senior years of high school, he captivated the country by striking out 15 St. Louis Browns in his first game for the Cleveland Indians.
He won 25 games in 1941, but two days after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Navy and spent three of his prime pitching years fighting in World War II.
