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Warren Spahn, 44, is the best left-handed pitcher in baseball history, but history is passing him by. For a long time, Spahn defied old age with remarkable success. He was 40 when he pitched the second no-hit, no-run game of his career, remarking later: "A fellow my age has no right to do that." At 42, he compiled a season record of 23 victories against only seven losses, thus winning 20 or more games a season for the 13th time. Last year Milwaukee Manager Bobby Bragan decided that Spahn had lost his touch, relegated...
...becoming traditional for Harvard squash teams to shut out Cornell; for three years the Crimson has romped past the Ithacans 9-0. Last year's Harvard players all won their matches from Cornell in three straight games, and for a squash team, that's the equivalent of a no-hit game...
...tension mounted. "Play ball!" he finally called. Wine whiffed at a second strike. Then, Sandy wound up, kicked his right leg high into the air-and burned a fastball straight across the heart of the plate. Koufax walked off the mound, the fourth player in history to pitch three no-hit games...
...Siggel, star pitcher for the Harvard boys, threw a no-hit game for seven innings until Al Daly hit a fierce bunt past third-baseman Petey Kann. The Crimson scored its lone two runs in the sixth inning on a 500 ft. blast by Al "Four Eyes" Crenshaw, one-time geologist and photo chairman. The play had been set up by a crucial bobble of an easy infield fly ball, hit by Richard "Gnat" Ruge...
Paced by two grand-slam home runs by Mike ("The Man") Lottman and the no-hit pitching of Joe ("Cowboy" Russin) and Steve ("The Arm") Roberts, the CRIMSON exploded with 37 hits after two out in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Steve Rogers scored the deciding twenty-third run, stealing second, third, and home in one play with a dazzling display of base-path wizardry. Tocsin's two runs came in the fourth when Joe ("Wild Man") Russin walked five in succession...