Jack Feller


Jack Leland Feller is a retired American professional baseball player. A catcher, he played five years professionally and appeared in one inning of one Major League Baseball game with the 1958 Detroit Tigers. He batted and threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed.
Feller was 21 years old and in his fourth pro season when he was summoned from the Tigers' Class A Augusta affiliate in the South [Atlantic League (1904–1963)|Sally League] when the rosters expanded to 40 men in September 1958. He caught the top half of the ninth inning in a 13–2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on September 13, with one putout and no errors. Feller never recorded a Major League plate appearance. However, he did have the distinction of catching a future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher and United States Senator, Jim Bunning, who won his 12th game of the season that day.
Feller batted.272 in 474 minor [league baseball|minor league] games before leaving baseball.
His scouting report in the March 1959 issue of Baseball Digest read: "Good arm and glove. Hitting problematical."