14:30:04
I saw this article yesterday about Bob Feller pitching in the 2009 Hall of Fame Game at the age of 90.
"On June 13, 1948 they held Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium. The Yanks played the Indians and the Babe, riddled with cancer, borrowed Feller's bat to lean on while he made his famous farewell speech.
Coincidentally, on June 13, 1941, Feller was in Cooperstown. Pitching for the Indians in the Hall of Fame's exhibition game at Doubleday Field. Cleveland beat Cincinnati 2-1 in a game cut short after six innings by heavy rain.
Sixty-eight years later Feller was poised to take the mound again at Doubleday Field. Fittingly, the skies again were dark with rain. Rumors circulated that Feller has been practicing in earnest, that he could still throw a 70-plus mph fastball."
Read the rest of the article. The guy's just awesome.
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