Time to add one of my favorite subjects for the blog to my custom "Classic Baseball" set, the great Warren Spahn:
Anyone
who has followed this blog long enough knows by now that any time I can
create a card for the mighty lefty, I will take it!
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).