Word: spahn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
After the season, the Braves were only too happy to give him to the last-place New York Mets. The Mets' only obligation was to meet Spahn's high salary demands, about $70,000, and to get their money's worth, they appointed him pitching coach as well as a pitcher. Snapped Spahn: "First, I'm a pitcher. Then I'm a coach." An obsessive chaser of the record books, Spahn looked on the Mets as perhaps his last chance to advance his name in baseball annals. He boldly predicted that he would...
...Spahn's ambition backfired with No. 360. His fastball lost its flash, his sliders hung like floaters. Just about everyone, including opposing pitchers, tore him apart. "They jump on him so fast I can't do anything," sighed Manager Casey Stengel. Spahn lost eight games straight, and other Met pitchers complained as well that he pulled rank as coach to take extra turns on the mound in his vain attempt for a victory...
...what have the Dodgers got? For one thing they have, as New York Mets Pitcher Warren Spahn says, "the best pitching staff in baseball." Lefthander Sandy Koufax has painful arthritis in his throwing elbow, still leads the league with twelve wins (v. three losses) and 159 strikeouts. Righthander Drysdale, when he isn't thinking about base hits, pitches well enough to post another eleven victories. Lefthander Claude Osteen, picked up over the winter from the American League's Washington Senators, has accounted for six, and "should have won three more victories than he shows," according to Manager Alston...
...Spahn and Sain...