Despite his comparatively short career, Koufax's 2, 396 career strikeouts ranked 7th in history as of his retirement, trailing only Warren Spahn ( 2, 583 ) among left-handers.

He ranked second, behind only Warren Spahn, among left-handed pitchers ( third when Babe Ruth is counted as a pitcher as well as an outfielder ).

Since the start of the post-1920 live-ball era, only Warren Spahn ( 363 ) recorded more career wins than Maddux.

With 363 wins, Spahn is the 6th most winning pitcher in history, trailing only Cy Young ( 511 ), Walter Johnson ( 417 ), Grover Cleveland Alexander ( 373 ), Christy Mathewson ( 373 ), and Pud Galvin ( 364 ) on MLB's all-time list.

Spahn was known for a very high leg kick in his delivery, surpassed perhaps only by eventual Giants teammate Juan Marichal.

As a left-hander, Spahn was able not only to watch any runner on first base, but also to not telegraph whether he was delivering to the plate or to first base, thereby forcing the runner to stay close to the bag.

Spahn had pitched in only 4 games, allowing 15 runs ( 10 earned ) in 15-2 / 3 innings.

Spahn was reunited with his first manager 23 years later, for the even more woeful last-place New York Mets, and --- referring to Stengel's success with the 1949-60 New York Yankees --- later quipped, " I'm probably the only guy who played for Casey before and after he was a genius.

Had he played, it is possible that Spahn would have finished his career behind only Cy Young in all-time wins.

" ( In 1962, another Hall of Famer hit his first career home run off Spahn: Sandy Koufax, who only hit one other.

The only other pitchers to match Mussina's 17 seasons of 10 or more victories are Greg Maddux, Warren Spahn, Cy Young, Don Sutton, and Steve Carlton ; all are Hall of Famers except Maddux, who also retired after the 2008 season and thus is not yet eligible.

His totals of wins, games and innings with the Braves ranked behind only Spahn and Kid Nichols in franchise history.

He finished 2nd in the league in wins twice, losing in 1957 to only Warren Spahn and in 1962 to Cy Young Award winner Don Drysdale.

" Though his record in 1938-39 totaled only 18 – 17, in he tied Grimes ' mark of 74 career double plays, passing him the following year ; Warren Spahn broke his record in.

Along with Tim Lincecum ( 2008 – 2010 ), Randy Johnson ( 1999 – 2002 ), and Warren Spahn ( 1949 – 52 ), Vander Meer is one of only four NL pitchers since 1940 to lead the league in strikeouts in three straight seasons ( 1941 – 43 ).

Milwaukee was only three victories short ( two in 1956 and one in 1959 ) of four National League pennants in four seasons, and still boasted Hall of Famers Henry Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn, but the players around them had begun to fall off in production and the Brave farm system could not keep up.

Those films quickly vanished into obscurity: Lewis ' 1972 film Black Love, apparently an erotic film with an all African American cast, and a pair of nudies, Ecstasies of Women ( 1969 ) and Linda and Abilene ( 1969 ), a lesbian western which remains notorious for having been shot on the Spahn Ranch only months before it became inhabited by the Manson Family.

Baseball player Warren Spahn is buried here.

The Warren Spahn Award, given to the major leagues ' best left-handed pitcher, is named after him.

Regarded as a " thinking man's " pitcher who liked to outwit batters, Spahn once described his approach on the mound: " Hitting is timing.

Glavine is the 23rd pitcher to win 300 games, and the fifth left-handed pitcher to do so, joining Eddie Plank, Lefty Grove, Warren Spahn and Steve Carlton.

Hall-of-Fame teammate Warren Spahn once said of the two: " Mathews is just as strong as Mantle.

Original vocalist Oscar Herrera is no longer involved with the band, giving up male vocal duties to Bret Helm ( of Audra ) and Athan Maroulis ( of Spahn Ranch ).

Claus Spahn ( born 15 May 1940 in Bottrop, Germany ) is a former TV programme editor of Germany's Westdeutscher Rundfunk ( WDR ) broadcasting corporation, a presenter, producer and author.

Stephen H. Spahn has been the School ’ s Chancellor and Headmaster since 1967 and is the longest serving head of an independent school in New York City.

Matt Green ( born March 27, 1967 in Queens, New York ) is a keyboard player, song writer and producer, best known for his association with the Los Angeles-based electronic-industrial music group Spahn Ranch from 1992 to 2000.

In 1957, Warren Spahn became the first left-handed pitcher to win the award.

* 24-Warren Spahn, 82, baseball pitcher.

In a more bittersweet bit of irony, Roberto would enter the Hall, albeit posthumously, alongside both his boyhood hero, Monte Irvin, and one of his most respected adversaries, Warren Spahn ( called by Clemente the toughest left-handed pitcher he'd ever faced, outside of Sandy Koufax ).

Warren Edward Spahn ( April 23, 1921 – November 24, 2003 ) was an American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher.

Spahn won 363 games, more than any other left-handed pitcher in history, and more than any other pitcher who played his entire career in the post-1920 live-ball era.

On June 11, 1950, Spahn and pitcher Bob Rush of the Cubs each stole a base against each other ; no opposing pitchers again stole a base in the same game until May 3, 2004, when Jason Marquis and Greg Maddux repeated the feat.

John Franklin Sain ( September 25, 1917 – November 7, 2006 ) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who was best known for teaming with left-hander Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves teams from 1946 to 1951.

Johnson won the 1999 NL Cy Young Award and Warren Spahn Award as the best left-handed pitcher in MLB.

He became the seventh left-handed pitcher to achieve the 300 win milestone and the fifth pitcher in the last 50 years to get his 299th and 300th win in consecutive starts, joining Warren Spahn, Steve Carlton, Gaylord Perry, and Tom Seaver.

Lemon and the Indians won the match-up with Braves pitcher Warren Spahn, 4 – 1, to even the Series.

Prior to the start of the season, the Mets acquired future Hall of fame pitcher Warren Spahn from the Milwaukee Braves.

However, in 1958 their starting pitcher Bob Buhl was injured after pitching in just 11 games, winning five, and that put even more pressure on Haney, Spahn, and Burdette to win.

His prowess, combined with that of fellow moundsman Frank Tanana, produced the refrain, " Tanana, Ryan and Two Days of Cryin '", a derivative of the refrain, " Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain ," coined when Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain anchored the pitching staff of the then Boston Braves in the 1940s.

To Spahn will go the Sid Mercer Memorial Award as the chapter's player of the year.

** Warren Spahn, American baseball player ( died 2003 )

* Warren Spahn, Hall of Fame baseball player

On August 31, 1950 against the Boston Braves, he joined Lou Gehrig as just the second player since 1900 to hit four home runs in a game without the benefit of extra innings ; he hit them against four different pitchers, with the first coming off Warren Spahn.

Mr. Spahn holds a BA from Dartmouth College, where he was an All-American basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, a Senior Fellow and an Intern at the United Nations under a 1926 Public Service Fellowship.

* Moe Spahn ( 1912 – 91 ), basketball player