three pitchers: Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, and 42-year-old rookie and former Negro league star Satchel Paige. (In 1975 the Indians made Frank Robinson the major league’s first African American manager.) The Indians...

game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four white bases laid out in a diamond (i.e., a square oriented so that its diagonal line is vertical). Teams alternate positions as batters (offense) and fielders (defense), exchanging places when...

one of the two associations in the United States and Canada of professional baseball teams designated as major leagues. It was founded as a minor league association in 1893 and was initially called the Western League. The Western League changed its name to the American League ofProfessional...

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(1918-2010). U.S. baseball player. A formidable fastball earned pitcher Bob Feller the nickname Rapid Robert. Born on Nov. 3, 1918, in Van Meter, Iowa, he was signed by the Cleveland Indians while still in high school, in 1936. He played for the team until 1941 and again from 1945 through 1956. In his career he had 266 wins and 162 losses and pitched three no-hitters and 12 one-hitters. He won 20 or more games in six different seasons and had a career-high 27 wins in 1940. In addition, he recorded 18 strikeouts in a nine-inning game and 348 during the 1946 season. He retired in 1956 with a lifetime earned-run average of 3.25 and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Feller