Spahnie



Baldheaded Warren Spahn

bellweather of the mound

could leap the toughest pitching jams

within a single bound.  

Outlasting Johnny Sain

and even Lou Burdette

old Spahnie threw such evil stuff

some guys can't find it yet. 

Musial hit homers

but few with men on base.

Spahn seldom gave a meaty one

if runners one could chase. 

Most times bagging twenty

though the years kept tolling;

as Jerome Kern's Old Man River

Warren just kept rolling. 

The all time best left-hand success

put 363 in the van.

Who's to say that cloaked guy's 'S'

did not mean 'SPAHNIEMAN'? 


Dan Grey Taylor Jr. 


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