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Warren Spahn Statue

Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark---Warren Spahn Plaza

 

Warren Spahn was a great left-handed baseball pitcher in the 1940's thru the mid-1960's mostly for the Braves, first in Boston, then in Milwaukee.

 

Spahn won 363 games despite not winning his first game until he was 25 years old due to military service in the early 1940's. He won 20 or more games in a season 13 times and lead the National League in wins 8 times, including 5 years in a row from 1957 thru 1961. He was a member of the 1957 World Series Champion Milwaukee Braves that also featured Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Joe Adcock.

 

Spahn was born in Buffalo, NY, but lived most of his life in Oklahoma after buying a ranch there in 1948.

 

Warren Spahn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973.

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