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...Spahn Yarn...
...Your unnecessarily caustic article maligning Pitcher Warren Spahn [July 23] was read with disbelief by this admirer of TIME and Spahn. Are your qualifications for a successful baseball career harmonica playing, airport parties or barroom brawls...
...Warren Spahn, 44: a starting pitcher's berth with the fourth-place San Francisco Giants, after he was turned out to pasture by the New York Mets. In his first start, he was less Giant than Met, was chased after allowing three hits and three runs in 2⅓ innings...
...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...
Finally, Stengel summoned Spahn for a talk in his office. Just about everyone in the club house heard the angry rumble as Spahn refused to step aside as a regular pitcher and join the bullpen staff. "I feel I can still pitch," he insisted. Perhaps so. But not with the Mets. Last week the Mets put Spahn up for sale. Price: $1. So far, he has not been bowled over with offers. By week's end, in fact, there had been none, and Spahn hurried off to try his hand at broadcasting baseball...