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Warren Spahn
Pitcher

1942/46-64 Boston/Milwaukee Braves
1965 New York Mets
1965 San Francisco Giants

  • Won 363 games, a major league record for a left-handed hitter.

  • Won 20 or more games in 13 seasons.

  • After appearing briefly with the Braves in 1942, Spahn entered into the military. He was awarded the Purple Heart when he suffered shrapnel wounds in a battle on the Rhine.

  • Pitched in seven All Star games.

  • Won the Cy Young Award in 1957 when he went 21-11.

  • Spahn won two games in the 1958 World Series including a shutout of the Yankees in Game Four.

  • Pitched two no-hitters, both of them coming late in his career--1960 and 1961.

  • Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.


"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain."

  • Lead the NL in wins five times, strikeouts four, shutouts four, and ERA three.

  • Started more double plays (82) than any other pitcher in major league history.

  • Also deadly with the bat, Spahn holds the NL record for home runs hit by a pitcher with 35.

  • He was the inspiration behind one of the most famous sayings in baseball history--"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain"---an homage to the spectacular one-two punch of Braves starters Spahn and Johnny Sain in 1948.

  • Upon leaving the Giants in 1965, Spahn pitched in the Mexican League for two more years.
YR TM LG GP W L PCT IP H BB SO ERA
1942 Bos N 4 0 0 .000 15.2 25 11 7 5.74
1946 Bos N 24 8 5 .615 125.2 107 36 67 2.94
1947 Bos N 40 21 10 .677 289.2 245 84 123 2.33
1948 Bos N 36 15 12 .556 257.0 237 77 114 3.71
1949 Bos N 38 21 14 .600 302.1 283 86 151 3.07
1950 Bos N 41 21 17 .553 293.0 248 111 191 3.16
1951 Bos N 39 22 14 .611 310.2 278 109 164 2.98
1952 Bos N 40 14 19 .424 290.0 263 73 183 2.98
1953 Mil N 35 23 7 .767 265.2 211 70 148 2.10
1954 Mil N 39 21 12 .636 283.1 262 86 136 3.14
1955 Mil N 39 17 14 .548 245.2 249 65 110 3.26
1956 Mil N 39 20 11 .645 281.1 249 52 128 2.78
1957 Mil N 39 21 11 .656 271.0 241 78 111 2.69
1958 Mil N 38 22 11 .667 290.0 257 76 150 3.07
1959 Mil N 40 21 15 .583 292.0 282 70 143 2.96
1960 Mil N 40 21 10 .677 267.2 254 74 154 3.50
1961 Mil N 38 21 13 .618 262.2 236 64 115 3.02
1962 Mil N 34 18 14 .563 269.1 248 55 118 3.04
1963 Mil N 33 23 7 .767 259.2 241 49 102 2.60
1964 Mil N 38 6 13 .316 173.2 204 52 78 5.29
1965 NY N 20 4 12 .250 126.0 140 35 56 4.36
1965 SF N 16 3 4 .429 71.2 70 21 34 3.39
  21   750 363 245 .597 5243.2 4830 1434 2583 3.08







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