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His kick was legendary - Warren Spahn, 92 -MJS Nov 24, 2003
I saw Warren Spahn win his 300th game. Gino Cimoli caught the ball for the last out. If I had met Warren - and I just missed him at a card show by a half an hour a few years ago - I would have asked him if he remembered that last out. He was the winningest left-hander in major-league history ... 20-game winner 13 times ... two no-hitters, including one at age 40 ... Cy Young Award winner in 1957 ... 14-time All Star ... Earned Purple Heart and Bronze Star in World War II. Spahn completed 382 of his 665 career starts (57.4%), including at least 20 in 13 different seasons ... he became the oldest 20-game winniner in major league history at age 42. Casey Stengel called farming Spahn out [he would not brush back Pee Wee Reese] the worst mistake he ever made. Spahn fought at the Battle of the Bulge and in the battle for the bridge at Remagen, Germany. In Boston in the lte '40s the mantra was "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain."
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