Spahn, Warren Edward

Spahn, Warren Edward
▪ 2004

      American baseball player (b. April 23, 1921, Buffalo, N.Y.— d. Nov. 24, 2003, Broken Arrow, Okla.), won 363 major league games—more than any other left-handed pitcher—and baffled batters with his graceful high-kick windup and outstanding control of his fastball, curve, slider, and screwball. During his 21-year career, he led the league in victories for eight years and led in earned-run average (ERA) for three years; altogether he won 20 or more games in a season 13 times, tying the major league record, and he pitched a lifetime total of 63 shutouts and 2 no-hitters. Spahn first appeared in the major leagues in 1942 with the Boston Braves. During army service in World War II, he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for heroism. Returning to the Braves in 1946, he won his first major league game, and he collected 21 victories the next season. When the Braves won the 1948 pennant, he and Johnny Sain, as the team's star pitchers, inspired the slogan “Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain.” In 1957 Spahn won the Cy Young Award. He pitched winning games for Milwaukee in the 1957 World Series (the Braves beat the New York Yankees) and again in 1958, when the Braves lost the Series to the Yankees. Remarkably, he recorded 177 victories after he was 35 years old; in 1963 he won 23 games for Milwaukee, at the age of 42. After 20 years as a Brave, he pitched for the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants in his final season. A 14-time National League All-Star, he entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973; in August 2003 the Atlanta Braves dedicated a 2.7-m (9-ft)-tall bronze statue of Spahn at their ballpark.

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