MMFan --
According to Baseball Reference, Robert William Andrew Feller went
into the 1946 season with 112 wins. Feller, like many professional
baseball players, missed the 1942-1944 because they'd enlisted during
World War II:
Baseball Reference
"Bob Feller"
http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/fellebo01.shtml
Now, for box scores from 1946 you want to use the Retrosheet box
scores. Volunteers have taken great pains to get historic baseball
data online. Go straight to Boxscores/1946/Cleveland Indians/Game
Log.
Retrosheet shows NO April 29 game -- but shows the Indians playing the
Yankees on April 30 with Feller pitching. If you look at the game
logs for the year, you'll see that it's his 2nd win of the year --
making it #114:
Retrosheet
http://www.retrosheet.org/
The April 30, 1946 game was Feller's 2nd no-hitter. Frankie Hayes,
his catcher, hit a winning home run in the 9th inning to left-field at
Cleveland Stadium for a 1-0 victory. Here's how the NY Times article
starts:
"They said that Bob Feller had lost his fast one. They said that the
war had taken too much from the right arm of the one-time Iowa farm
boy, that, in the parlance of the ball players, he no longer had it.
They made all of these and other derogatory remarks during spring
training, and when Feller, after winning his first game this year,
proceeded to lose two in a row to the Tigers and White Sox, the
dissenters weighed in with lots of 'I Told You So' snickers.
They'll not say it again!"
The Yankee lineup included Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Snuffy
Stirnweiss, Tommy Heinrich and Charlie Keller.
By the way, ESPN's baseball writer, John Sickels, has a book out
called "Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation." Sickels
published the book in February:
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1574884417/qid=1081879301/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-5148680-6060644?v=glance&s=books
Google search strategy:
Use Retrosheet and Baseball Reference -- two of more than 3 dozen
baseball links that I keep.
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA
Indians fan |
