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Home > Baseball > MLB Hall of Famers > Warren Spahn
Warren Spahn
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Warren Spahn was born on 23rd April 1928 in Buffalo, New York and died on 24th November 2003 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His height is six feet with weight 175 pounds. He was inducted with the Hall of Fame in 1973.
He was a left-handed pitcher of all time, and possibly the best as well and was a complete player who helped himself at bat and in the field. He was the mainstay of the Braves' pitching staff for two decades. Spahn won 20 ML, the Major League games and had record-tying 13 times, pitched two no-hitters, and led the NL, the National League in strikeouts four consecutive years. From 1949 to 1963, Spahn was clearly baseball's most successful lefthander. He won 20 games 12 times in 15 seasons, led the NL in wins eight times, and never had an ERA, The Earned Runs Average above 3.50. He won consistently pitching for Braves clubs that ranged from seventh place to World Champions. He was aided by the addition of two new pitches, a wicked screwball that became more important as his fastball lost its pop, and a slider that gave him four quality pitches.
In 1957, at the age of 36, Spahn led the Braves to the pennant with a 21-11, 2.69 record, and began a string of five consecutive seasons leading the NL in wins. Spahn improved to 22-11 in 1958, and won two more games in the WS, The World Series rematch with the Yankees, in which New York prevailed. The Braves lost a playoff against the Dodgers in 1959, and would never again reach the WS during Spahn's tenure, but several personal milestones remained.
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