Bob Feller Trades and Transactions

The Bob Feller trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Bob Feller has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

"I don’t think anyone is ever going to throw a ball faster than he does," Joe DiMaggio was quoted as saying during his epic 1941 season, when he hit in a record 56 consecutive games. "And his curveball isn’t human." - Sportswriter Richard Goldstein in the New York Times (12/15/2010, 'Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92', Source)

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Bob Feller

Bob Feller Autograph on a 1993 Topps Archive (#54)

Bob Feller Autograph on a 1993 Topps Archive (#54)
 

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Birth Name:   Robert William Andrew Feller
Nickname:   Bob or Rapid Robert
Born On:   11-03-1918  (Scorpio)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Van Meter, Iowa
Year of Death Data Died On:   12-15-2010
Place of Death Data Died In:   Cleveland, Ohio
Cemetery:   Gates Mills – North Cemetery, Gates Mills, Ohio Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Van Meter High School (Van Meter, IA)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-00   Player Weight Chart Weight:   185
First Game:   07-19-1936 (Age 17)
Last Game:   09-30-1956
Draft:   Not Applicable / Signing Bonus = $1 & Signed Indians Baseball
Bob Feller

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1936: Signed as an amateur free agent by Cleveland Indians.
01-09-1957: Released by Cleveland Indians.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the Bob Feller trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.

     

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