Word: spahn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class of 1952 has arrived in time to witness the second flowering of New England. Thoreau and Emerson never shone so brightly as Sain and Spahn. And Billy Southworth is undoubtedly the greatest New Englander since Calvin Coolidge...
...Labor Day, Southworth's boys met the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers in a battle that Boston historians may some day rank with Bunker Hill. With the help of six hits by Alvin Dark, Spahn won the 14-inning opener, 2-1, and Sain took the nightcap, 4-0. That dropped the Dodgers four games behind (and started them on their subsequent course down the league ladder...
...helped Rookie Shortstop Alvin Dark (now batting .331) off to his sensational start. Even without Stanky, Billy's boys picked up speed. For pitching, Southworth relied on two work horses-tobacco-chewing right-hander Johnny Sain, with two 20-game seasons under his belt, and lefthander Warren Spahn...
Like Bob Feller, Warren Spahn learned it from his father: the Spahns worked out on Buffalo's sand lots. He had barely made the Braves in 1942, when the Army took him. He came out of Europe with a wound ("just a scratch on the foot") and a first lieutenancy. Last year, in something more than half the season with the Braves, he won eight and lost five. This year he put together a string of eight wins before his two defeats...
Nobody paid much mind to Manager Billy Southworth when he sounded off about Spahn in Florida: "He'll win 20; he'll be one of the best." Every manager has a right to talk that way about a prospect in training and, besides, wasn't this guy a lefthander? By this week, Warren Spahn was making other National League managers sit up and take notes on him, and making Southworth look very right indeed...