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I just reared back and let them go.

Bob Feller

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
BOB FELLER

Country Down Old Buildings
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Hair Packing Sports Trouble
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America’s factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
BOB FELLER

Country Home War
Nobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.
BOB FELLER

Blessed Blessed Life Forever
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Fun League
How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o’clock.
BOB FELLER

Afternoon Milion Performance
I don’t think baseball owes colored people anything. I don’t think colored people owe baseball anything, either.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Color Sports Thinking
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
BOB FELLER

Morning Rooster Trying
I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn… If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year’s time.
BOB FELLER

Country Delinquency Followed Time Year
The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It’s one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.
BOB FELLER

Better Differences Simple Sports
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
BOB FELLER

Believe Intelligent Sports
I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Sports Yankees
I just reared back and let them go.
BOB FELLER

Let Pitching Reared
The soldiers that didn’t come back were the heroes. It’s a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you’re a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you’re a survivor.
BOB FELLER

Hero Names Soldier
I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
BOB FELLER

Balls Heaven Sports
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Games Opportunity

I just reared back and let them go.

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