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Baseball legend Bob Feller, Van Meter native, treated for anemia in Cleveland

Take that, Strasburg. This ain’t no tender flexor bullspit!

Iowa baseball hall of fame pitcher Bob Feller has been treated and released at a Cleveland hospital.

A spokesperson for the Bob Feller Museum in his native Van Meter told WHO-TV that Feller was battling anemia, a condition that develops when blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells that deliver oxygen to the body.

Feller, 91, is in good spirits, WHO reported. More details were not immediately available.

Repoz Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:52 AM | 40 comment(s) | Bookmark
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1. DCW3 Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:25 AM (#3622560)

Feller, 91, is in good spirits, WHO reported.

Oh, God, he's dying.

2. frannyzoo Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:32 AM (#3622562)

Yup, for about two seconds I thought the World Health Organization was directly involved in the care of Bob Feller.

3. Anonymous Observer Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:39 AM (#3622565)

/Stephen Strasburg

Call me when he makes it to 100.

/end Stephen Strasburg

4. Cris E Posted: August 22, 2010 at 04:07 AM (#3622582)

Anemia?!? Why back in the day you ate well, you went about your business and your humors took care of themselves. All these nancy boy notions of blood and doctors and leaches are for the fancy pants types who can't stay strong. Bah!

/Hippocrates

5. Shredder Posted: August 22, 2010 at 05:21 AM (#3622593)

Right after they start testing for greenies. Coincidence?

6. Steve Phillips' Hot Cougar (DrStankus) Posted: August 22, 2010 at 07:13 AM (#3622601)

Heh, I thought it said 'amnesia', like he forgot to tell some kid to get off the lawn.

7. RMc's grumbling has gone far enough Posted: August 22, 2010 at 08:58 AM (#3622606)

Feller, 91, is in good spirits, WHO reported.

He must've taken him for a ride in his TARDIS!

8. AJM Posted: August 22, 2010 at 10:52 AM (#3622611)

Feller, 91, is in good spirits, WHO reported.

The guy on first?

9. asinwreck Posted: August 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM (#3622614)

He's outlived Moon and Entwistle, just Daltrey and Townshend left to go.

10. adenzeno Posted: August 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM (#3622621)

I love Feller- He says what he thinks, is honest and does not care what you/I think. He may be wrong, but you know where he stands, and I dont think he takes it personally if you disagree. In modern society, there seems to be little give and take or discussion. Instead it seems that there is yelling and screaming then demonizing those who would disagree wi us.

11. Leroy Kincaid Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:13 PM (#3622662)

So does this mean he's lily-livered?

12. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:33 PM (#3622675)

Dirty barroom bet question: Who's the oldest living Hall of Famer?

Hint: He homered in his first time at bat in the Majors.

13. jwb Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:48 PM (#3622680)

Not a Hall of Famer.

14. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:52 PM (#3622685)

Not a Hall of Famer.

And he's also not the right answer.

15. mex4173 Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:54 PM (#3622687)

Bobby Doerr. Learned that on Sporcle the other day http://www.sporcle.com/games/cmal33/livinghof

16. Chris Needham Posted: August 22, 2010 at 02:56 PM (#3622689)

Never saw him weaken.

(is that how it's done?)

17. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:04 PM (#3622696)

Bobby Doerr. Learned that on Sporcle the other day http://www.sporcle.com/games/cmal33/livinghof

Doerr's indeed a Hall of Famer, and he's older than Feller, but he's not the oldest. Think about that hint I gave you.

18. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:21 PM (#3622706)

How did this happen? Was the iron in Feller's blood displaced by excess quantities of awesome?

19. Jarrod HypnerotomachiaPoliphili(Teddy F. Ballgame) Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:27 PM (#3622711)

20. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:37 PM (#3622718)

I don't know the answer to Andy's question, but in a half-hearted attempt to find out, I came up with another:

Among players who homered in their first MLB at bat, who has the highest career HR total?

Dunno, but I'll bet that your guy has at least 100x as many career dingers as my guy.

21. just plain joe Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:38 PM (#3622719)

Doerr's indeed a Hall of Famer, and he's older than Feller, but he's not the oldest. Think about that hint I gave you.

Isn't Lee McPhail older than Doerr? He is in the HoF and still alive, although of course he was never a player, but went in as an executive.

22. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:40 PM (#3622722)

McPhail's indeed a few months older than Doerr, but not as old as my guy. And McPhail obviously didn't hit a homer in his first time at bat in the Majors.

23. Sandlapper Spike Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:40 PM (#3622723)

That's an ace of a trivia question.

24. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 03:41 PM (#3622724)

Shhhhhh!!!!!!

25. Jarrod HypnerotomachiaPoliphili(Teddy F. Ballgame) Posted: August 22, 2010 at 04:01 PM (#3622731)

I thought that's who it might be, but I didn't look up his details.

Andy's right, of course--the career record holder has far more than 100x the total of his guy.

26. Tom Nawrocki Posted: August 22, 2010 at 04:03 PM (#3622732)

27. Downtown Bookie

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 04:10 PM (#3622738)

Dirty barroom bet question: Who's the oldest living Hall of Famer?

Hint: He homered in his first time at bat in the Majors.

I may be missing something (as that happens more often than I care to admit) but the answer JOSNW,MTG is looking for is approximately four years younger than Feller.

DB

OH! I DID MISS SOMETHING!

Good one, JOSNW,MTG!!

28. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 04:39 PM (#3622750)

Ace Parker, class of '72. The fact that it's a dirty question, though, opens up the possibility that he isn't the right answer; a few months back, Basketball Hall of Famer John Wooden would have been an older living Hall of Famer. And there are several dozen Halls of Fame in this country.

Well, Ace is the answer, and until anyone can come up with a better one, I'm sticking to it. But you can see why I said "Dirty." (smile)

29. vortex of dissipation Posted: August 22, 2010 at 04:39 PM (#3622751)

Assuming it's who I think it is (I may be wrong), I have a solitaire Strat-O-Matic draft league that includes players from all eras, from MLB, the Negro Leagues, Japan, and the AAGBL. I pretty much have every significant player in baseball history in it, except for those whom I've left out for moral reasons - the Black Sox, Ben Chapman, Marty Bergen, etc. Jeff Heath, who was a hell of a player, isn't in my league for what he did after that home run...

30. RMc's grumbling has gone far enough Posted: August 22, 2010 at 05:33 PM (#3622792)

Reminds me of the trick question I heard watching a White Sox game years ago: "Name the four Hall of Famers on the 1962 White Sox."

31. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: August 22, 2010 at 05:47 PM (#3622806)

Or the "name the 15 (or whatever) future Hall of Famers present at Don Larsen's perfect game" question, whose solution includes Stengel, Alston, Allen and Scully.

32. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 05:48 PM (#3622807)

Would that have been Fox, Aparicio, Lopez and Dave DeBusschere?

33. Sox Machine Posted: August 22, 2010 at 05:49 PM (#3622809)

Early Wynn would make four Baseball HOFers.

34. Jolly Old St. Neck Wound, Moral Idiot

Posted: August 22, 2010 at 05:58 PM (#3622816)

Early Wynn would make four Baseball HOFers.

One of the sweetest games I ever heard was this one, which forced Early Wynn to go through an entire new Spring training and several more months just to get his 300th win.

35. Mr. J. Penny Smoltzuzaka Posted: August 22, 2010 at 06:02 PM (#3622818)

In modern society, there seems to be little give and take or discussion. Instead it seems that there is yelling and screaming then demonizing those who would disagree wi us.

Holy crap! Thanksgiving 2001 family dinner at my house was a microcosm of modern society.

Also, I wouldn't think Feller could be anemic - doesn't he eat iron bars for breakfast like all tough guys?

36. Crispix Attacks Posted: August 22, 2010 at 06:28 PM (#3622832)

I suppose the Deacon Jones on the 1962 White Sox was not the Canton HOFer.

37. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: August 22, 2010 at 07:19 PM (#3622872)

Gary Gaetti

38. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: August 23, 2010 at 11:20 AM (#3623184)

Among players who homered in their first MLB at bat, who has the highest career HR total?

Will Clark?

39. Der_K is getting more dogmatic. Posted: August 23, 2010 at 12:10 PM (#3623203)

It already has its own thread - but, fellas, you've helped inspire a JoePo column.

40. AndrewJ Posted: August 23, 2010 at 12:12 PM (#3623205)

Reminds me of the trick question I heard watching a White Sox game years ago: "Name the four Hall of Famers on the 1962 White Sox."

Or, "How many former Cardinals are honored in Yankee Stadium's Memorial Park?" Answer: Miller Huggins, Roger Maris, and Paul VI and John Paul II.

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