Good read. We used to have real sports heroes.
I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Bob Feller at a minor league baseball game in Winston-Salem, NC in the mid-1990s. We discussed his experiences in World War II and, of course, his stellar baseball career. He was at the game to sign autographs as part of a local promotion, but the odd thing is that we talked for 15 or 20 minutes without being interrupted by autograph seekers. I guess most of the fans there didn’t know (or care) who he was.
Why was Ted Williams omitted in this treatise....
He was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War.
He flew F4U Cosair’s and F9F Panthers in the Marine Corps...
Bob Feller went to the Navy and was assigned as a gunner oin an AA battery on the USS Alabama. You can visit this in Mobile Bay and see the gun station with pictures of him there.
Bob Feller went to the Navy and was assigned as a gunner oin an AA battery on the USS Alabama. You can visit this in Mobile Bay and see the gun station with pictures of him there.