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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

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

Baseball Sports Yankees
Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.
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Baseball Fun League
As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A’s paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Player Team
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
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
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
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
You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they’ll cheat on the golf course, they’ll cheat in business, and anything else in life. Players may laugh about it and say it’s funny, but right down in their heart, they don’t think it’s funny at all, and they have no respect for a person who cheats.
BOB FELLER

Business Golf Heart Laugh Player
My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don’t think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Father Thinking
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
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
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Inches Insufficient Sports War
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
I just reared back and let them go.
BOB FELLER

Let Pitching Reared
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I’ll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
BOB FELLER

Baseball Men Teamwork
Nobody lives forever and I’ve had a blessed life.
BOB FELLER

Blessed Blessed Life Forever
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
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
Sympathy is something that shouldn’t be bestowed on the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.
BOB FELLER

Pitching Sympathy Yankees
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

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.

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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.

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