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Hall of Famer Warren Spahn: the all-time record holder for victories by a left-hander with 363, he won 20-plus games in a season 13 times.(Biography)
IF NOTHING HAPPENS TO THAT boy in the way of injuries, he's going to be one of the best in the business. He has an easy motion and every time he throws that ball, it's doing something."
That was what the late Casey Stengel had to say about Warren Spahn the first time he saw the young left-hander pitch in the major leagues. It was near the end of the 1942 baseball season and Spahn had been called up from the minors to pitch for the Boston Bees, as the Braves
were called in those days, the team which Stengel was managing at the time.
Ironically, as Spahn was concluding his career in the big leagues 23 years later with the New York Mets, Stengel was ...
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