In brief: Feller’s wife attends Hall of Fame Classic

Anne Feller didn’t address the crowd at the Hall of Fame Classic. Her presence alone was enough.

Seven months after her husband died at 92, Bob Feller was honored Sunday in Cooperstown, N.Y., by the organizers of a game the Cleveland Indians great wholeheartedly embraced. The game’s most valuable player was given the inaugural Bob Feller Player of the Game Award.

“It’s an honor. It’s wonderful for them to remember him. He would have been so grateful,” said Anne Feller (hugging Ozzie Smith in photo).

“It’s just wonderful for them to ask me to come and I’m proud to be here to represent Bob, who loved this game. He always loved coming to Cooperstown. He was just so proud of being in the Hall of Fame.”

When Major League Baseball stopped participating in the annual Hall of Fame Game at Doubleday Field three years ago, this one-stoplight village found a hero in Feller, who was used to playing that role. Feller, who was enshrined in Cooperstown in 1962, didn’t want to see a tradition die after nearly seven decades.

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Former MSU aide authors book

He’s married, he runs his own business and he’s coaching again. Most of all, he’s remorseful.

Former Montana State University assistant football coach Joe O’Brien, who spent nearly two and a half years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, has written a book about his life that is due out later this summer.

In “Busted Bronco: From Addiction to Redemption,” O’Brien covers topics ranging from his dysfunctional upbringing and unlawful behavior to his incarceration and “triumph over the demons that have haunted him throughout his life.”

Bozeman Daily Chronicle