Rapid Robert still delivers
Bob Feller, the 88-year-old Hall of Famer from the Cleveland Indians, still makes the rounds for autograph signings and interviews.
During a Q-and-A with an Associated Press reporter on Friday in Winter Haven, Fla., Feller touched on these topics:
=On Pete Rose, who earlier this week admitted betting on the Cincinnati Reds to win every game while he was their
manager: “He’ll do anything to get his name in the paper or get attention. He’s a self-admitted liar. Great hitter, good fielder, pretty fair base runner, but an average manager. He’ll never get in the Hall of Fame. He’ll never get the votes.”
=On Iraq: “We should have gone in there with 450,000 troops — half with guns and half for support. We should have said, ‘We’re going to take your oil, we’re going to give you the going price and we’re going to set up martial law. You are going to do what we tell you, like we did in Japan after World War II. And if you don’t do what we tell you to do, you may not be around tomorrow.’”
=On President Bush: “We haven’t had good leaders in a while. I voted for Bush. He would have been a good president of a college, but that’s it. Instead of getting better, he’s got worse.”