Editing Cleveland Guardians (section)

===1936–1946: Bob Feller enters the show===
The Indians were a middling team by the 1930s, finishing third or fourth most years. {{Baseball year|1936}} brought Cleveland a new superstar in 17-year-old pitcher [[Bob Feller]], who came from [[Iowa]] with a dominating [[fastball]]. That season, Feller set a record with 17 strikeouts in a single game and went on to lead the league in strikeouts from 1938 to 1941.
[[File:Bob Feller 1953.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.75|[[Bob Feller]]; winner of the A.L. pitching [[Major League Baseball Triple Crown|Triple Crown]] in 1940, member of the [[1948 World Series]] Championship team, the Indians all-time leader in wins and strikeouts, and an [[MLB Hall of Fame]]r]]

On August 20, 1938, Indians catchers [[Hank Helf]] and [[Frank Pytlak]] set the "all-time altitude mark" by catching baseballs dropped from the {{convert|708|ft|adj=on}} [[Terminal Tower]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119227/index.htm |date=March 11, 1985 |title=When Baseballs Fell from On High, Henry Helf Rose to the Occasion |first=Bruce |last=Anderson |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |access-date=October 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102205626/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119227/index.htm |archive-date=November 2, 2012 }}</ref>

By {{MLBy|1940}}, Feller, along with [[Ken Keltner]], [[Mel Harder]] and [[Lou Boudreau]], led the Indians to within one game of the pennant. However, the team was wracked with dissension, with some players (including Feller and Mel Harder) going so far as to request that Bradley fire manager [[Ossie Vitt]]. Reporters lampooned them as the Cleveland Crybabies.<ref>{{cite web|author=C. Phillip Francis |url=http://www.chatterfromthedugout.com/cleveland_crybabies.htm |title=The Cleveland Crybabies |access-date=June 27, 2008 |work=Chatter from the Dugout |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012214434/http://www.chatterfromthedugout.com/cleveland_crybabies.htm |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=August 2012}} Feller, who had pitched a [[no-hitter]] to open the season and won 27 games, lost the final game of the season to unknown pitcher Floyd Giebell of the [[Detroit Tigers]]. The [[1940 Detroit Tigers season|Tigers]] won the pennant and Giebell never won another major league game.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lisa |last=DeMaio Brewer |title=A National Treasure Calls Wilkes "Home" |url=http://www.therecordofwilkes.com/rec20000621/index.htm |work=The Record of Wilkes, N.C. |date=June 21, 2000 |access-date=June 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126002835/http://www.therecordofwilkes.com/rec20000621/index.htm |archive-date=January 26, 2009 }}</ref>

Cleveland entered 1941 with a young team and a new manager; [[Roger Peckinpaugh]] had replaced the despised Vitt; but the team regressed, finishing in fourth. Cleveland would soon be depleted of two stars. [[Hal Trosky]] retired in 1941 due to migraine headaches<ref>{{cite news |first=Leighton |last=Housh |title=Hal Trosky, Norway, 1965 |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19650404/SPORTS11/50710015 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090213210927/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19650404/SPORTS11/50710015 |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 13, 2009 |work=Des Moines Register |date=April 4, 1965 |access-date=June 27, 2008 }}</ref> and Bob Feller enlisted in the [[United States Navy|Navy]] two days after the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]]. Starting third baseman [[Ken Keltner]] and outfielder [[Ray Mack]] were both drafted in 1945 taking two more starters out of the lineup.<ref>{{cite book | last =Schneider | first = Russell | title = Cleveland Indians Encyclopedia | publisher = Sports Publishing LLC | year = 2001 | page =52 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9jkqN0qu-fcC | isbn = 1-58261-376-1}}</ref>