Hello everyone!
Today
on the blog I post up my second "missing" superstar from one of the
best sets of the 1950's, the 1954 Wilson Franks baseball set, with the
legend Warren Spahn:
Spahn
was coming off yet another fantastic season for the Braves in 1953,
their first in the city of Milwaukee after the franchise moved from
Boston.
For
the year, Spahn led the league with 23 wins and a 2.10 earned run
average, while tossing five shutouts and striking out 148 batters.
The man was amazing, flat out, and by the time he retired in 1965 he posted a 363-245 record, with a 3.09 ERA, 63 shutouts, 28
saves and 2583 strikeouts over 750 appearances, 665 of which were
starts.
Oh yeah, he also hit 35 career home runs along with 189 runs batted in with (coincidentally) 363 hits!
And remember he didn’t win his first game until he was 25 years of age, as he served in the military from 1943 to 1945.
His first 20-game season was 1947 (at the age of 26), and he kept right on rolling until his final 20-game season in 1963!
In between, he ended up posting 13 such campaigns, leading the
league eight times (with five of those coming consecutively from 1957 to
1961).
Just an incredible talent!
Was there anything he couldn’t do?Once in a lifetime right there...