Sport: As Fast as Feller?

Ever since Cleveland's Pitcher Bob Feller burst on the baseball scene 18 years ago as "the fastest man since Walter Johnson," baseball scouts have combed the bushes and sandlots looking for another speed-bailer. "Faster than Feller" became the standard label for any strong-armed busher with speed, and since "Rapid Robert's" heyday, countless youngsters have been called "another Feller." None has managed to live up to his press clippings. But last week baseball men were finally convinced that another Feller had arrived in the person of burly (6 ft. 2 in., 207 Ibs.) Robert...

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