Bob Feller

Two balls and two strikes.

Tomorrow, Jackie Robinson, Bobby Feller, Ed Rausch, and Deacon Bill McKechnie will formally be inducted to baseball's hall.

The setting is a beautiful one.

The 2-2 pitch by Moorhead.

Drops into the field boxes, out of play.

Tomorrow, the Milwaukee Braves meet the New York Yankees at Cooperstown in the ceremonies.

Prior to the game at Cooperstown tomorrow, Jackie Robinson, Bobby Feller, Ed Rausch, and Deacon Bill McKechnie go into the Hall of Fame.

A throw to first, not in time.

Yeah, if you're getting four to five runs a game and you're a pitcher, all of a sudden you get to be a much better pitcher than you were when you were getting shut out every time you took the mound or were getting two or three runs a game.

So yeah, offense, as Bob Feller used to say, it's not how you pitch, it's when you pitch.

And if you're getting offense... you're going to be, you know, you suddenly look a lot closer to Cy Young than, you know, you had in the past.

So, yeah, offense would help.

On August 12, 1974 in Anaheim, Nolan Ryan is facing the Boston Red Sox and leading 4-2 in the top of the ninth.

Bernie Carbo is at the plate, and Ryan has already equaled Bob Feller's record of 18 strikeouts in an American League nine-inning game.

Let's listen to Ned Martin.

Three and two to Bernie Carbo.

And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Manager George Coleman of the existing American League team is expected to start Red Ruffing on the mound and follow him up with Buck Newsome and close with either Bob Feller or Al Milner.

And behind Ruffing, we'll find Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators in third place, who has a batting average for the season of .355.

Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox in left field, who's been batting .344 so far for the campaign.

And Ray Mack

will be set to relieve Joe Ford in a second.

Newsom, Feller, Milnar, Tommy Bridges of Detroit, Amal Leonard of the Senators, and Monty Pearson of the Yankees will be ready for a

relief

And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Manager Joe Cronin of the existing American League team is expected to start Red Ruffing on the mound and follow him up with Buck Newsome and close with either Bob Feller or Al Milner.

And behind Ruffing, we'll find Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators at third base, who has a batting average for the season of .355.

Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox in left field, who's been batting .344 so far for the campaign.

His only setback in all-star game competition.

Like Dean, Vandermeer is now back in the minors, trying to work his way back into the big show.

Well, the second largest crowd in the history of the game, 62,892, sat in New York's huge Yankee Stadium last year and knocked the American League win again 3-1 when young Bob Feller was called in to relieve the tiring Tommy Bridges, tossed a double play ball, and the game was over right then and there in the hands of the American League.

A brilliant set of pitching by Bob Feller.

It's 2-2.

Of course, Bob Feller for the Indians at 348 in 1946.

Mickey Lulich, the all-time Tiger strikeout pitcher, 308 two years ago.

The pitch, line drive by the glove of Goltz, but picked off by Carew, throws him out.

Bobby Winkle's the same almost the identical position in the angel home the pitch a strike it appeared he changed or that might have been a fork ball came up there a floating the totals on the board identical four runs seven hits two errors each side the Angels in the bottom of the eighth trying to get the lead for Nolan Ryan here's the pitch curveball waved at and missed way out in front of a slow curve on deck Veda Pinson the marked men or marked men as the case may be in the top of the ninth will it be Carew Oliva or Killebrew or will it be any of them or all two strikes on McCraw runners lead away and here's the pitch fastball inside one and two just toss in this aside If Ryan should strike out all three of them in the ninth inning, he not only would set the Major League all-time single season record, he would tie the American League single game record.

Three more would give him 18.

Bob Feller's record.

One and two to count.

One ball and two strikes.

Warren Spahn, Bob Feller, Mickey Mantle also previously announced from the Hall of Fame.

Willie Mays, Al Rosen, and Edith Slaughter, Hall of Fame candidates.

It's going to be quite a night.