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	Warren Spahn Award by Oklahoma Sports Museum on Baseball Almanac
		The actual award given to the winner is a 2-foot-2 bronze statue of Warren Spahn in his famous high kicking windup that has an estimated value of $10,000.
		The award honors the legacy of Oklahoman Warren Spahn, the winningest lefty ever, whose 363 MLB wins are the most ever for a left-handed pitcher.
		Spahn, 82, will present the award, a 2-foot-2 bronze statue of himself, to Pettitte at 7 p.m., December 2, at the Masonic Temple Convention Hall in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /awards/warrenspahnaward.shtml (1177 words)

	Warren Spahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Warren Edward Spahn (April 23, 1921 – November 24, 2003) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for 21 seasons, all in the National League.
		Spahn led the National League in wins eight times, including five seasons in a row (1949, 1950, 1953, 1957-1961) and complete games nine seasons, seven consecutively (1949, 1951, 1957-63); these numbers are major league records.
		Spahn served in the United States Army in World War II and was wounded in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warren_Spahn (611 words)

	Warren Spahn (1921-2003)
		Warren Spahn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who won more games than any other left-handed pitcher in baseball history, died Monday November 24th at his home, he was 82.
		Warren Spahn was the mainstay of the Braves pitching staff for two decades, first in Boston and then in Milwaukee.
		Warren Spahn was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /memorial/braves/spahn.html (1054 words)

	SI.com - MLB - Winningest left-hander Spahn dead at 82 - Tuesday November 25, 2003 2:28AM
		Spahn was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility, receiving 315 votes of 380 votes, nearly 83 percent.
		Spahn led the NL in victories eight times, including five seasons in a row from 1957-61, and led the league in strikeouts from 1949-52.
		Spahn was 23-7 and led the league with a 2.10 ERA in 1953 at age 32, then matched that a decade later when he was 42, going 23-7 again in 1963, this time with a 2.60 ERA.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/baseball/mlb/11/24/spahn.obit.ap (1255 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Winningest left-hander Warren Spahn dead at 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spahn was the mainstay of the Braves' pitching staff for two decades, first in Boston and then in Milwaukee.
		Spahn led the NL in victories eight times, including five in a row from 1957-61, and led the league in strikeouts from 1949-52.
		Spahn was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/baseball/20031124-1448-bbo-obit-spahn.html (902 words)

	behind the dugout » Warren Spahn
		Warren Spahn, the wining-est left-hander in major league history, received a battlefield commission (the only baseball player to receive one) as a second lieutenant in June 1945.
		Spahn has 2no-hitters to his credit and was able to field and hit and had an excellent pickoff move to match his stellar arm.
		Spahn’s emergence coincided with the Braves’ resurgence - a third-place finish in 1947 and a NL pennant in 1948 - and in 1948 he was immortalized in baseball lore by the jingle “Spahn and Sain and pray for rain,” a reference to the Braves’ lack of pitching depth.
	www.tireball.com /behindthedugout/profiles/warren-spahn (2571 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Warren Spahn; high-kicked and hurled way into baseball record books, ...
		Warren Spahn, the winningest lefthander in major league history, whose exploits for the Boston Braves helped inspire the catchphrase "Spahn and Sain, and pray for rain," died yesterday at his home in Broken Arrow, Okla. He was 82.
		Spahn, who'd begun his career relying on a standout fastball and curve, added a slider and screwball to his repertoire as he aged -- which gave him twice the number of pitches he felt were necessary for success.
		Spahn also won a Bronze Star, was the only major league player to receive an individual battlefield citation during the war, and was given a battlefield promotion to lieutenant.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/11/25/warren_spahn_high_kicked_and_hurled_way_into_baseball_record_books_braves_lore (1359 words)

	Warren Spahn
		Spahn's emergence in 1946 coincided with the Braves' resurgence - a third-place finish in 1947 and a NL pennant in 1948 - and in 1948 he was immortalized in baseball lore by the jingle "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain," a reference to the Braves' lack of pitching depth.
		Spahn turned down a contract that would have paid him 10 cents a head based on home attendance in 1953, and the decision proved costly when the Braves moved to Milwaukee and attendance skyrocketed.
		Spahn led the NL in ERA in 1953, and failed to win 20 games only once between 1953 and 1961, as he began to master changing speeds and location to keep hitters off balance.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Spahn.html (594 words)

	ESPN Classic - Hall of Famer, 82, won 363 games
		Spahn, the winningest left-hander in baseball history and a leader of the dominant Milwaukee Braves teams of the late 1950s, died at his Broken Arrow home Monday, family members said.
		Spahn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility, receiving nearly 83 percent of the votes.
		Spahn, in a wheelchair, traveled to Atlanta for the dedication of the 9-foot-high bronze monument, which features his high leg kick.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2003/1124/1670072.html (834 words)

	WARREN SPAHN 1921-2003 / Winningest left-hander dies
		Spahn was 42 at the time and pitched two more big-league seasons -- though he didn't retire until age 46, after pitching in Mexico -- and appeared in 16 games for the '65 Giants, adding three more victories to bring his total to 363.
		Spahn escaped a bases-loaded jam in the 14th, went 1-2-3 in the 15th and retired Harvey Kuenn to open the 16th.
		Spahn was the subject of a 1948 poem, published in the Boston Post, that told the story of a top-heavy pitching rotation featuring Spahn and Johnny Sain.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/25/SPGPR3A12O1.DTL (705 words)

	American Heroes
		Spahn returned to the Braves in July 1946 and was faced with Two tasks: winning a spot in the Boston rotation and marrying his fiancee, Lorene Southard.
		Spahn did not record any no-hitters until late in his career, when he cemented his reputation as an ageless wonder by pitching two of them.
		Spahn was one of baseball's better hitting pitchers, with 35 lifetime home runs, the NL record for a hurler and fourth-best on the all-time list.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/american_heroes.cfm?page=57 (1635 words)

	Blog of Death: Warren Spahn
		Warren Edward Spahn, the winningest left-hander in baseball history, died on Nov. 24.
		In 1940, Spahn was signed with the Braves in Boston for $80/mo. He stayed with the team through its move to Milwaukee 13 years later.
		Spahn was the star pitcher of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves the year I was born.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000531.html (666 words)

	Warren Spahn -- Got late start to his HOF career
		Warren Spahn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who won more games than any other left-hander in history, died Nov. 24, 2003 at his home.
		Spahn spent the majority of his 21-year pitching career with the Braves, debuting with the team while it was still in Boston and pitching in Milwaukee until the mid-1960s.
		Spahn joined the Army and served in Europe where he was injured.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/s/spahn_warren.html (518 words)

	Warren Spahn -- The Winningest Lefty in History Dies at Age 82 - PSA Library
		He lost four prime years of his career to the military service and he spent a couple of additional years in the minors at the end of his career, but in between he posted some of the most impressive numbers in the history of baseball.
		Warren Spahn, the winningest lefty to ever pitch in the majors, died Monday, November 24 at the age of 82, secure in the knowledge that his legend would live forever.
		Warren Spahn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article_view.chtml?artid=4005&universeid=314 (521 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hall of Famer Spahn dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spahn was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility, receiving 315 votes of 380 votes, nearly 83%.
		Warren Edward Spahn was born on April 23, 1921, in Buffalo He started his baseball career in his hometown, playing first base while his father played third for the Buffalo Lake City Athletic Club.
		Spahn, who gave up Willie Mays' first career home run in 1951, led the Braves to the World Series with 21 wins in 1957 and 22 in 1958, then won 21 games in each of the next three seasons.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/2003-11-24-spahn_x.htm (1346 words)

	[Deathwatch] Warren Spahn, Hall-Of-Fame Pitcher, 82 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spahn, a lanky 14-time all-star who won 363 games during his 21-year career and was considered among the best pitchers of his era, passed away at his home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, the team said.
		Spahn also completed nearly 60 percent of the games he started over his career -- a statistic that would be unheard of for today's pitchers, who are almost always replaced in the late innings by a reliever.
		Funeral arrangements for Spahn, a native of Buffalo, New York, who was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, were pending.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2003-November/000556.html (356 words)

	Warren Spahn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Spahn helped lead the Boston Braves to their first pennant in 34 years in 1948.
		Spahn finished his career with the New York Mets in 1964 and the San Francisco Giants in '65.
		In 1973, Spahn became the first native Buffalonian to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
	www.buffalosportshallfame.com /Class_of_1991/Warren_Spahn/warren_spahn.html (337 words)

	Warren Spahn, Cool of the Evening
		Spahn was not a big man, 6-feet in his cleats, but he could throw hard.
		Spahn slowly ate his eggs benedict in the smoking section of a hotel restaurant and recalled missing three seasons to the military in World War II.
		Spahn finished his cigarette and coffee, pushed back his chair and stood up into perfect posture that suggests his military training never left him.
	www.cooloftheevening.com /spahn.htm (897 words)

	Power Line: Warren Spahn, RIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Warren Spahn was one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history.
		Yet Spahn's first major league win came at age 25, after he had served for three years as an Army combat engineer in World War II, where he took part in the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a battlefield commission, a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
		Spahn pitched 20 seasons for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves and was a member of the great Braves teams of the mid-1950's, one of the most fun baseball teams of all time.
	www.powerlineblog.com /archives/005199.php (457 words)

	Warren Spahn
		Warren Spahn is probably the only guy around who can get away with calling Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson "ugly." After all, Spahn realizes he wouldn't have won any beauty contests himself during his playing days.
		Spahn spoke glowingly of Johnson during the 3rd Annual Warren Spahn Award ceremonies on Jan. 30 inside the Oklahoma Sports Museum in Guthrie, Okla. With a nasty ice storm wreaking havoc on most of the state of Oklahoma, Johnson was unable to fly in for the ceremonies.
		As Spahn grew older, he seemed to get better on the mound as evidenced by his no-hitters and the fact that he went 23-7 for Milwaukee in 1963 and finished with a 2.60 ERA that year at age 42.
	www.baseballtoddsdugout.com /spahnstory.html (1909 words)

	Warren Spahn
		Spahn is the winningest left-hander in history and possibly the most underrated player of all time.
		Although he still expressed the desire to pitch, Spahn was unable to find work in the big leagues, so he took his act south of the border to Mexico and eventually back to the states as a minor leaguer.
		Spahn, who had been confined to a wheel chair because of failing heath, reportedly seemed uncomfortable, if not embarrassed, by all of the attention.
	z.lee28.tripod.com /sbnslegends/id26.html (1014 words)

	Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette, a statistical anomaly - Baseball Statistics - Helium - by Lupine
		Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette pitched for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves from 1952 until 1962.
		Spahn was pitching to 82% of the LERA, while Burdette was pitching to 98% of the LERA.
		Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette pitched for the Boston/Milwaukee Brav...
	www.helium.com /tm/151907/warren-spahn-burdette-pitched (334 words)

	The Ballplayers - Warren Spahn \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Spahn's career was delayed by WWII [see sidebar], and he did not earn his first ML win until 1946 at the age of 25.
		On September 16, 1960, Spahn pitched the first no-hitter of his career against the Phillies, and the 4-0 win was his 20th of the season.
		Spahn had been overtaken by Sandy Koufax as the NL's premier lefthander, and his ERA ballooned to 5.29 in 1964 when he spent much of the summer in the bullpen.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /ballplayers/player.php?name=Warren_Spahn_1921 (1168 words)

	Waren Spahn - Baseball Fever
		Spahn was almost certainly the best pitcher of the late 1940s and all of the 1950s - only Whitey Ford comes to mind as even being close.
		Spahn 363, Carlton 329, Ryan 324, Sutton 324, Niekro 318, Perry 314, Seaver 311, Grove 300 and Wynn 300.
		Spahn's total of 13 is one more than the combined total of the four other winningest pitchers of that era: Carlton (6), Ryan (2), Sutton (1) and Niekro (1).
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=2712 (688 words)

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