Source: Good News Network
100 years ago today, the Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Bob Feller was born in Iowa. The young prodigy who joined the Cleveland Indians at age 17 became the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before he was 21—and things only got more impressive… (1918)
He threw three no-hitters in his 18-year career and tallied the most American League wins six different years.
In 1946, the Hall of Famer recorded 348 strikeouts, a total not exceeded for nearly two decades. He was named by Sporting News as the “greatest pitcher of his time” and Red Sox great Ted Williams called Bob Feller “the fastest and best pitcher I ever saw during my career.”More Good News on this Date:
- The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily newspaper, was founded as The Bombay Times (1838)
- A new Dutch constitution drafted by Johan Thorbecke to limit the power of the monarchy, strengthening parliament and ministers, was proclaimed – and is still in use today (1848)
- Independence…
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