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...baseball's record books Lefty Grove's latest victory might have gone down as the best performance of 1940's opening day, were it not for a dimple-chinned kid young enough to be his son: 21-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians. Like Grove, Feller is his team's No. 1 pitcher and was therefore assigned to start the Indians' opener, against the White Sox in Chicago's Comiskey Park...
Among his audience there was no President, but, in a box near home plate, were three spectators young Feller was just as anxious to please: his parents and his kid sister Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...
...away from his father's Indiana farm at 13 . . . saloon brawls and street fights ... the first time he knocked out a man with his famed "corkscrew punch" (glorified left hook) and decided to call himself Kid McCoy . . . the night in 1896 when he stopped Tommy Ryan, world's welterweight champion . . . champagne suppers at Delmonico's . . . fights he threw and the chicanery he got away with . . . the carpet tacks he dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy...
Hazier & hazier grew the recollections. Next morning Norman Selby, the mortal remains of immortal Kid McCoy-famed for his ten marriages as well as his 100-odd fights against the best in the business with only six conceded defeats-was found in the hotel room. Beside him was a note: "... Sorry I could not endure this world's madness...
...most people she continued to look and act like a doll-faced, taffy-haired Wampus cutie, and those who thought about her at all thought of her as Olivia de Havilland's kid sister and the wife of Brian Aherne...