Talk:Bob Feller

This bio needs help
This bio spends half of its time bashing the guy and there is very little about some of the more famous aspects of his career such as throwing over 100mph, out pitching a motor cycle, etc. Youngberry 01:54, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * You're right unfortunately, the bio, even though it's in its best shape now, is still very poor :/ Wizardman  19:55, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

There really needs to be something here about his role in the creation of the Players' Association (and perhaps his role in helping Ted Lindsay form the NHLPA as well). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.43.140.70 (talk) 20:54, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

Many of Feller's pundits
"Many of Feller's pundits"? Huh? His authorities? Or critics? Or disciples? Or what? Trekphiler 00:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Nudity
I have removed the image of Feller showering naked. I have no problem with it myself, but I know we will receive complaints (especially given that children may well visit this article). A good rule of thumb is that such images should only be included in articles where people would expect them (like Nudity in Sport, where the image is also displayed). Rje 00:06, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Why...
was this section there? "==Feller's opinions and controversy== During spring training for the 2003 baseball season, Feller called Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Jim Thome, who began his career with the Cleveland Indians, a ''"journeyman first baseman. He's no gazelle over there. More like a hippopotamus."''

Feller's son Stephen designed the Bob Feller Museum, built in 1998 in Van Meter, Iowa. In an interview there in 1998, Feller said he won more games in Chicago than in any other city except Cleveland. But he had one unhappy memory of Chicago. On Mothers Day, 1939, White Sox third baseman Marv Owen lined one of Feller's pitches into the stands near first base, hitting Feller's mother in the face. She spent the next two weeks in a Chicago hospital with cuts and bruises, as well as two black eyes. Upon his mother's discharge from the hospital, an apologetic Owen remarked to Feller, "Gee, Bob, now she looks as purty as you do."

In 2006, when Negro league baseball legend Buck O'Neil failed to get voted into the Hall of Fame, Feller was quoted as saying What the hell do (these committee members) know about baseball? I know more about Aristotelian metaphysics and string theory than they do about baseball."

In 2007, in light of the Mitchell Report, documenting baseball players' usage of performance enhancing drugs, Feller chimed in saying that he believed that there ought to be a separate Hall of Fame for "drug losers." "

Potential sources
Articles from during his career Quadzilla99 (talk) 17:57, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Ten page LIFE magazine spread:
 * Short exercise thing from Boy's Life:
 * Stuff from Baseball Digest; long article his wife wrote about him: Why didn't he pitch game four 1954 series? Feller developed a sinker later in his career:
 * Paige/Feller pitching school:
 * Boys' Life article:

Everything else
 * Feller barnstarming against negro leaguers:
 * A entire book (Baseball Goes to War) which is available for free viewing through Google Books and mentions Feller 21 times. There's also a search box if you just want to look up the parts Feller is mentioned in:
 * Feller disputes that Ryan threw harder than him:
 * Article he wrote for Baseball Digest:
 * Four page Baseball Digest retrospective: Quadzilla99 (talk) 18:46, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Training methods blurb: AaronY (talk) 23:49, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I have standardized all the references. There are 2 additional dead links, bringing the total to 3. Anyone up for bringing them back to life/archiving? Zepppep (talk) 16:50, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

No proof Feller is dead yet
A number of edits have been made saying Bob Feller is dead. While his death looks imminent, no major Cleveland-area sources have posted his death. The only one at all that has is the Morning Journal, but it is a boiler-plate piece posted December 9th that says Feller died the day before, which is very unlikely. It has no specifics of his death and appears to have leaked out. Meanwhile the Plain Dealer updated it's story at 3:06 the morning of the 9th with Feller still alive in the hospice. --Beirne (talk) 08:53, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The Morning Journal has since retracted their report BurienBomber (talk) 12:40, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Good article?
What is needed before an attempt at gaining good article status is achieved? Zepppep (talk) 04:11, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have the main bio on him, so I'm going to do a big expansion on top of the one you did, then it should be okay to go. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 17:27, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That's great if you have a good bio on him. I've gone ahead and nominated for GA. I feel the article covers all parts of his life and the major parts, in depth. The article also now has nearly 100 sources referenced. If there are other things which can be expanded upon, I'm guessing it would push it to FA status! Zepppep (talk) 12:10, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Awesome. As I continue reading the bio in my spare time I'll add in pieces and parts to further expand it. It will probably be a couple months until the review so I'll have time (since I've done some editing I of course can't review it). Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 02:42, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Comic book appearance
In 1948, Bob Feller teamed with DC Comics' Boy Commandos to solve a crime in a comic story. The cover is here, and a sentence worth of story info is here. This seems like it should be included under Highlights, but the citing here is beyond me. --71.98.200.248 (talk) 02:13, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

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