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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Hall of Famer Feller has pacemaker installed

Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller, already going through leukemia treatments, is also dealing with a heart issue that has landed him in the Cleveland Clinic.

Feller, 91, had a pacemaker installed last week to regulate his heartbeat, according to a close family friend. Feller is said to be resting comfortably and is hopeful of a release from the hospital later this week.

Feller medical update.

Gamingboy Posted: September 29, 2010 at 10:11 PM | 24 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 10:43 PM (#3651614)

Feller's pacemaker goes faster then Chapman's.

2. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: September 29, 2010 at 11:22 PM (#3651638)

A peacemaker would be more Feller's syle.

Ba-zing!

3. vortex of dissipation Posted: September 30, 2010 at 12:19 AM (#3651665)

A peacemaker would be more Feller's syle.

I'm absolutely sure that a Peacemaker wouldn't fit in Feller's chest...

4. AROM Posted: September 30, 2010 at 12:41 AM (#3651674)

Hope`the recovery is quick. Any indication of the next time he'll pitch?

5. mex4173 Posted: September 30, 2010 at 12:56 AM (#3651681)

Rub some dirt on it.

6. Magnum RA Posted: September 30, 2010 at 01:18 AM (#3651685)

Feller will face hip replacement on three days rest.

7. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: September 30, 2010 at 01:31 AM (#3651690)

and then he'll chase the artificial hip off his lawn--that old buzzard ain't EVER gonna die--god bless him

8. Shock Posted: September 30, 2010 at 01:47 AM (#3651698)

Back in my day, we didn't need any fancy machines to keep our hearts beating. We did it on our own.

9. rLr Is King Of The Romans And Above Grammar Posted: September 30, 2010 at 02:10 AM (#3651704)

Back in my day, we didn't need any fancy machines to keep our hearts beating. We did it on our own.

Well, a couple shocks from the defibrillator helped.

10. Rafael Bellylard: Built like a Molina Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:08 AM (#3651778)

Lighten up! This is the first time a pacemaker was attached to a spleen.

11. mebeckwith Posted: September 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM (#3651808)

Feller then attempted to rip out the pacemaker and throw it along side a speeding motorcycle.

102.1 mph.

That's how I wanna go.

12. Shooty: Applying to be Fearless Leader

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM (#3651815)

I'm absolutely sure that a Peacemaker wouldn't fit in Feller's chest...

Ooof. I was thinking more a Colt Peacemaker. Speaking of which, the Coen Bros. have remade True Grit with Jeff Bridges as Rooster Cogburn. Hmm.

13. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: September 30, 2010 at 12:51 PM (#3651834)

This is the first time a pacemaker was attached to a spleen.

Genius line of the week!

14. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: September 30, 2010 at 04:16 PM (#3652003)

He has a heart?

15. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: September 30, 2010 at 04:30 PM (#3652017)

Call me when he gets to 100.

But seriously, I love Feller.

16. DL from MN Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:01 PM (#3652043)

Earl Bakken is awesome

17. Pat Rapper's Delight Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:09 PM (#3652047)

The practice of medicine was so much better in the 1930's and 40's. Doctors today are coddled too much.

18. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:12 PM (#3652051)

that old buzzard ain't EVER gonna die--god bless him

Seconded.

19. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:18 PM (#3652057)

I thought Tony Curtis and George Blanda were already dead, and if asked I would've thought Feller already had a pacemaker.

20. Dan Szymborski

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:38 PM (#3652077)

The practice of medicine was so much better in the 1930's and 40's. Doctors today are coddled too much.

Kinda wussy of Feller to have a robot help his heart beat, no? Pitchers today don't throw many complete games, but at least when they did, there aren't any mechanical gyro-men to help them out.

Radiation? Chemotherapy? Back when men were men, radiation therapy was hanging out a nuclear test and the only chemotherapy the Greatest Generation needed was 6 cans of Schlitz and a carton of smokes before they ate their giant steak.

21. Fernigal McGunnigle Posted: September 30, 2010 at 05:58 PM (#3652094)

that old buzzard ain't EVER gonna die--god bless him

I saw this news on Sportscenter while I was at the gym this morning and thought about my grandfather, who died at 96 of nothing in particular, just being really old and worn out. Feller's not going to go like that at all. Some disease is going to have to go out there, really get its hands dirty, and straight up kill him, because Feller's not going to help it along at all.

22. Dan Szymborski

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 06:09 PM (#3652103)

Some disease is going to have to go out there, really get its hands dirty, and straight up kill him, because Feller's not going to help it along at all.

Yeah, that's what happened with my grandfather. He was 96 and it took a combined simultaneous effort of metastatic prostate cancer, bad urinary tract infection, pneumonia, and heart attack to take him out. And barely conscious and knowing he was going to die, he still smirked and whispered that it was OK because "seeing the bill for all this would kill me anyway." I'm not going to be even a tenth as badass.

23. Harmon "Thread Killer" Microbrew Posted: September 30, 2010 at 06:17 PM (#3652116)

Never saw him pitch.

24. Tulo's Fishy Mullet (mrams) Posted: September 30, 2010 at 06:31 PM (#3652131)

For all the snark and grief that Bob Feller gives and gets for being who he is, the Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter is worth making a stop for if you are driving through on I-80.

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