Bob Feller, with a 266-162 record and 2,581 strikeouts ... In the spring of 1936, he was signed by Cleveland scout Cy Slapnicka for $1 and an autographed baseball. The 17-year-old high school ...

On April 16, 1940, before 14,000 fans in Chicago’s cavernous Comiskey Park (capacity 50,000) on a cold and blustery day, ...