Photo of the day Tuesday October 15, 2013 The greatest lefty of them all................

mchenrycards · Oct 15, 2013

Warren Spahn is the winningest left hander in the history of the game with 363 wins to his credit. This World War II veteran, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge (look it up if you dont know about this battle) became an exceptional pitcher in the major leagues for more than two decades. Mr. Spahn had spent the majority of his Major League service with the Boston/Milwaukee Braves and finished his career with the San Francisco Giants.

Here is to Mr. Spahn with his intimidating wind up.....

A_Pharis · Oct 15, 2013

Yes, sir! I PC Mr. Spahn, and he's one of my favorite historical players.

mchenrycards · Oct 15, 2013

Since it is Tuesday I usually do a two-for-Tuesday so here is the second one...

dbacksfan4life · Oct 15, 2013

nice photos

Fandruw25 · Oct 15, 2013

Good stuff. I had the chance to meet him back in the early 90's but my mom decided school was more important (2nd grade :-(). My dad did at least get me a personalized signed post card.

rsmath · Oct 16, 2013

trying to think - anyone with a that high of leg kick nowdays? if there is, it's not coming to me right this moment.

Austin · Oct 16, 2013

rsmath said:
trying to think - anyone with a that high of leg kick nowdays? if there is, it's not coming to me right this moment.

Bronson Arroyo has a similar kick in which his leg goes straight out, but not quite as high as Spahn, who basically did the splits.

rsmath · Oct 16, 2013

Austin said:
Bronson Arroyo has a similar kick in which his leg goes straight out, but not quite as high as Spahn, who basically did the splits.

works for me (close enough for government work, as they say).

wouldn't it be funny if we saw a lot of old-fashioned pitching delivery mechanics coming back if it was determined the old fashioned style was more sound and less injury-prone than current pitching mechanics???

fyi, my favorite recent player with old-fashioned type pitching movement was Paul Byrd.

sheetskout · Oct 16, 2013

Show any Spahn's you have! (My only graded vintage Spahn)

smapdi · Oct 16, 2013

Love Spahn. I started building the 1965 Topps set in PSA 8 and got one card into it, this one:

(not this exact one).

I stopped there. I figured I had already gotten the best card in the set. Although I have been thinking of adding this one.

BiggioBrooks755 · Oct 16, 2013

rsmath said:
trying to think - anyone with a that high of leg kick nowdays? if there is, it's not coming to me right this moment.

Dontrelle Willis was close

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