» May 9, 1947: Heralded Giant rookie Clint Hartung makes his first pitching appearance and throws six shutout innings of relief against the Braves. He will start 20 games and compile his best season at 9-7. He will also play seven games in the OF and bat .309 for the year. But the Braves win today, 6–2, behind Warren Spahn.

» May 30, 1947: In the first of two, Earl Torgeson of the Braves does not record a single putout at 1B, a record of idleness shared in the National League by Rip Collins (twice) and Dolf Camilli of the Phillies in 1937. Later Gary Thomasson and Len Matuszek will have zero putouts in a full game at 1B. Torgy does have one chance, but muffs a popup. Torgeson scores a pair as Warren Spahn wins his 8th in a row, 6–3. Red Barrett then shuts out the Dodgers in game 2, 3–0, dropping Brooklyn to 4th place. The Braves pull off a double steal in each game, and each time it is Stanky's high throw to the plate that allows it. Boston is now in 3rd place, a game behind the Giants.

» September 21, 1947: The Braves' Warren Spahn delays the Dodgers' clinching the pennant by shutting them out 4-0 for his 20th win.

» May 15, 1948: At Brooklyn, Jim Russell's first inning home run is the only score as Boston's Warren Spahn beats Rex Barney, 1–0. It's the 3rd shutout in a row for Brave hurlers.

» December 14, 1949: The Cubs send P Bill Voiselle and $35,000 to the Braves for infielder Gene Mauch. The Cubs had hoped to come away with Warren Spahn or John Antonelli.

» June 2, 1950: Behind the 5-hit pitching of bonus baby Bill MacDonald (2–0), the Pirates beat the Braves, 5–4 to stop a 9-game hitting streak. Gene Mauch homers and drives in three runs for Boston, while Ralph Kiner hits his 10th of the year, off Warren Spahn.

» August 25, 1950: The Cubs win 7-6 over Braves, as reliever Dutch Leonard tops Warren Spahn.

» August 31, 1950: Gil Hodges of the Brooklyn Dodgers hits 4 HRs and a single, driving in 9 runs in the Dodgers 19–3 rout of the Boston Braves in Ebbets Field. Hodges’ 17 total bases is the most since 1894. Gil's first homer is a 2-run shot off loser Warren Spahn in the second inning, adds a 2-run homer in the third off Norman Roy, another 2-run homer off Bob Hall in the sixth, and a 3-run shot off Johnny Antonelli in the eighth. Erskine is the winner of the rout. Hodges had 4 long hits on June 25 last year, the first Dodger to twice have 4 extra base hits in a game.

» September 21, 1950: Warren Spahn of the Braves wins his 21st game, hurling a 2-hit, 5–0 win over the Cards.

» May 28, 1951: After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his first ML hit, a home run off Braves P Warren Spahn. The Giants lose the game 4–1.

» June 20, 1951: Billy Southworth's first win as Braves manager is a breeze as Warren Spahn shuts out the Cubs, 9–0, and is 3-for-4 at the plate, including a HR.

» August 7, 1951: The Phils shut out the Braves 1–0 in 15 innings in the 2nd game of a doubleheader as reliever Ken Heintzelman bests Warren Spahn, also in relief. The Phils capture the opener, 3–1, on Robin Roberts' 15th win.

» August 19, 1951: In Boston, the Braves score five in the 6th and roll over the Dodgers, 13–4. Warren Spahn picks up his 15th win and his 21st complete game. A 2nd-inning homer by Willard Marshall, off Ralph Branca, starts the scoring.

» September 5, 1951: After a day off, the Giants sweep two games in Boston, winning 3–2 and 9–1. In the opener, Sheldon Jones scatters six hits to beat Warren Spahn. Spahn allows just five hits in his attempt to become the National League's first 19-game winner. The Giants tally 13 hits in the second game to help Sal Maglie win his first-ever victory against Boston.

» September 13, 1951: The Cards play a rare doubleheader—the first in the 20th century—with two different teams, defeating the Giants 6–4 in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nitecap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit—by pitcher Al Brazle—in losing to Warren Spahn, 2–0. The Cards total attendance is 8,865—4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves.

» September 22, 1951: Larry Jansen stops the Braves on four hits, and wins his 20th game, 4–1. The Giants score three in the 8th off Warren Spahn to win it.

» September 25, 1951: The Dodgers continue to slide. After the Dodgers lose two out of three in Philadelphia, Boston sweeps two from Brooklyn. Warren Spahn wins the opener 6–3 over Branca, his 4th straight loss, and Jim Wilson coasts to a 14–2 three-hit win in the 2nd game. Earl Torgeson drives in six runs in the nitecap. Meanwhile, the Giants win 5–1 over Robin Roberts and the Phils to move a single game in back of the Dodgers.

» September 29, 1951: The Giants and Dodgers both win on shutouts to stay tied. New York tops the Warren Spahn and the Braves 3–0 on Maglie's 23rd win and Don Newcombe shuts out the Phillies, 5–0, for his 20th victory. Campy and Pafko homer as Robin Roberts takes the Phils loss.

» April 15, 1952: In the last home opener in Braves Field in Boston, 4,694 fans watch Warren Spahn lose 3-2 to Brooklyn's Preacher Roe.

» June 14, 1952: Warren Spahn of the Braves ties the NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in a 15-inning, 3-1 loss. Hal Jeffcoat's 2-run triple wins it, while Spahn's HR is the only Boston score. Meanwhile, Braves scout Dewey Griggs signs Henry Aaron to a Braves contract.

» September 13, 1952: Warren Spahn strikes out 6 Pirates in a row en route to an 8-0 win in Boston.

» July 14, 1953: The NL wins its fourth All-Star Game in a row, 5-1 in Cincinnati's Crosley Field behind the stellar pitching of Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn. Cardinal OF Enos Slaughter gets two hits, scores twice, and robs Harvey Kuenn of an extra-base blow.

» August 1, 1953: Warren Spahn of the Braves allows just an infield hit to Richie Ashburn in the fourth in beating Philadelphia 5-0. It is Spahn's 31st career shutout.

» April 15, 1954: Vic Raschi makes his National League debut but the host Braves knock the Cardinal vet out of the game. Harvey Haddix, in relief, takes the loss, 7–6, with Warren Spahn the winner for the Braves. Hank Aaron has his first hit as he goes 2-for-5.

» May 25, 1954: Warren Spahn tops the Reds, 3–1, for his 10th straight win over Cincy. He helps his own cause with a homer, off loser Herm Wehmeier. It is the Braves 8th win in a row.

» May 13, 1956: The Braves destroy the Redlegs 15–0 and 6–1. In game one, Warren Spahn homers as his offensive contribution to the win.

» May 24, 1957: In his first two ML at-bats, Cubs rookie Frank Ernaga hits a solo home run in the 2nd inning and follows with a run-scoring triple in the 4th, both against Warren Spahn. The Cubs beat the Braves 5–1 at Wrigley Field. Ernaga will add just one more home run to his ML career total.

» June 1, 1957: Braves pitchers Warren Spahn and Gene Conley stop Wally Moon's 24-game streak, but Cards 40-year-old Murry Dickson wins 7-1.

» August 27, 1957: Hurricane Bob Hazle, hitting .526 since being recalled from Wichita, hits two 2-run HRs, as the Braves beat the Phillies 7-3 for Warren Spahn's 219th career win, moving him to a 6th on the career list. Spahn also hits his 18th career HR, also good for sixth (tie with Schoolboy Rowe) on the career list

» September 3, 1957: Warren Spahn of the Braves hurls his 41st shutout, the most by a NL lefthander, as he beats Chicago 8-0.

» October 2, 1957: Whitey Ford wins 3-1 over Warren Spahn in Game 1 of the Series at Yankee Stadium.

» October 9, 1957: With Warren Spahn stricken by the flu, Lew Burdette pitches with 2 days rest, achieves his 3rd complete game and 2nd shutout to beat New York 5-0 The Braves win their first WS championship since the "Miracle Braves" of 1914 beat Connie Mack's Athletics.

» November 28, 1957: Warren Spahn of the Braves wins the Cy Young Award as ML Pitcher of the Year almost unanimously. His only competition for the title is the White Sox, Dick Donovan, who received one vote.

» May 31, 1958: Braves Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and Wes Covington homer in succession off Ron Kline of the Pirates in an 8–3 win. The same trio hit successive home runs on June 26th last year. Warren Spahn coasts to his 8th win.

» September 13, 1958: The Braves Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis 8–2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.

» October 5, 1958: Milwaukee goes up 3 games to one with a 3-0 shutout by Warren Spahn, who allows just 2 hits. The Braves stop Hank Bauer's 17-game WS hitting streak, dating back to 1956.

» November 12, 1958: The Yankees Bob Turley wins the Cy Young Award, gathering five votes to four for last year's winner, Warren Spahn.

» April 26, 1959: Was it something I said? Reds pitcher Willard Schmidt is twice hit by pitches in the 3rd inning in an 11–10 win over the Braves. Braves pitchers Bob Rush and Lew Burdette do the plunking. It is a first in the major leagues, but the ML mark will be tied in three years by Frank Thomas. While on the mound in the 4th inning, Schmidt is hit again when a Johnny Logan line drive strikes him on the right hand and he has to leave the game. The two teams use 14 pitchers between them to tie a National League record, with the eight pitchers by the Reds tying another NL record. Warren Spahn is tagged for the loss, his 2nd in two days to the Reds.

» May 13, 1959: Milwaukee's Warren Spahn becomes the 3rd National League lefty to win 250 games, beating the Cards 3–2.

» May 31, 1959: In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Gene Freese's home run accounts for the only Phillies run in a 2–1 loss to the Braves and Warren Spahn. For Freese, it is his 5th pinch homer of the season, one short of the NL record. Freese will hit 23 home runs this season, but no more in the pinch. The Phils win the opener, 6–0, behind Robin Roberts.

» September 15, 1959: The Giants whip Warren Spahn and the Braves 13-6 behind Jack Sanford. Willie Mays has 4 hits and 5 RBI. The Giants are now 2 games in front with 8 to play.

» September 21, 1959: The Braves Warren Spahn notches his 20th win, 8-6, and his 266th NL victory to tie Eppa Rixey of the Phils and Reds for the career high in wins by a lefthander. The Braves and the Dodgers are now tied for the lead in the 3-team pennant race.

» September 26, 1959: At Milwaukee the Braves beat the Phillies 3-2 behind Warren Spahn's 21st win. He is now ahead of Eppa Rixey as the winningest NL lefty.

» September 16, 1960: Warren Spahn, 39 years old, notches his 11th 20-win season with a no-hitter against the Phillies winning 4-0. Spahn also sets a Milwaukee club record with 15 strikeouts in handing the last-place Phils their 90th loss of the year.

» November 3, 1960: Pittsburgh's Vern Law is voted Cy Young Award winner. He outpolls Warren Spahn 8-4.

» April 28, 1961: Five days past his 40th birthday, Warren Spahn becomes the 2nd-oldest ML pitcher (after Cy Young) to hurl a no-hitter, blanking San Francisco 1–0. Hank Aaron drives in the only run off loser Sam Jones, who strikes out 10. It is Spahn's 290th win and 52nd shutout. Spahn faces just 27 men, following each walk by starting a DP.

» May 3, 1961: Another brilliant Warren Spahn performance is spoiled when LF Mel Roach's misplay costs the Milwaukee ace a 2nd no-hitter in a row. He settles for a 2-hitter in topping the Dodgers 4–1.

» July 1, 1961: At Milwaukee, Gordy Coleman collects eight hits and leads the Reds to a sweep over the Braves. The Reds win the opener, 8–5, as Coleman collects five hits, including a 3-run homer in the 13th off Warren Spahn. Gordy chips in with three more hits in the nitecap, a 4–3 Reds win.

» August 4, 1961: At Candlestick, Warren Spahn wins his 299th game, 2–1, over the Giants. He gets a bit of help from Hank Aaron who leads of the 7th and 9th with homers off Mike McCormick. The Giants scoring is an Orlando Cepeda homer in the 5th.

» August 11, 1961: Warren Spahn's 2–1 victory against the Cubs makes him the 13th 300-game winner.

» September 19, 1961: The Giants clobber Warren Spahn for four home runs, one of them a grand slam by Willie Mays, and then rally in the 8th and 9th to top the Braves, 11–10. The two teams combine for eight home runs and 57 total bases, but the short ball wins it -- Harvey Kuenn's tie breaking single in the 8th, and Ed Bailey's sacks full single in the 9th.

» November 8, 1961: Whitey Ford is voted the Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn.

» April 30, 1962: The Phils finally beat Warren Spahn, 6–4, after losing to the Braves lefty 11 games in a row.

» June 13, 1962: Sandy Koufax smacks his first ML home run, and it comes off another future Hall of Famer, Warren Spahn. It is the winning blow in the 2–1 win at Milwaukee. Sandy will hit one more career round tripper.

» July 26, 1962: Warren Spahn hits his 31st career homer, off Craig Anderson, setting an National League record for pitchers, in a 6–1 win over the Mets. The Mets suffer their 11th straight loss.

» September 8, 1962: At Milwaukee, pitcher Chris Short, a career .126 hitter, has four hits against Warren Spahn as the Phillies top the ace left hander, 4–2.

» April 11, 1963: Warren Spahn's Opening Day, 6–1, victory over the Mets is his first win of the season and the 328th of his career. He thus moves ahead of yesteryear's great Eddie Plank as the all-time winningest lefthander. Except for Duke Snider's home run, no Met gets past 2B.

» June 15, 1963: St. Louis trades C/1B Gene Oliver and minor league P Bob Sadowski to the Braves for P Lew Burdette. In 13 seasons with the Braves, Burdette and Warren Spahn won 443 games between them.

» June 28, 1963: At Los Angeles, the Braves Warren Spahn beats Don Drysdale, three-hitting the Dodgers, 1-0. It was the first time Spahn had beaten the Dodgers on their home grounds since Aug. 21, 1948 (15 years). He'd lost 14 straight: nine at Ebbets; four at Memorial Coliseum; and one at Chavez Ravine.

» July 3, 1963: In the classic pitching matchup between the two Hall of Famers, the Braves Warren Spahn gives up nine hits in 15 1/3 innings, while Juan Marichal allows eight hits in 16 innings while striking out 10. At 12:31 A.M. in San Francisco, Willie Mays's round-tripper off Spahn in the bottom of the 16th gives Marichal a 1–0 win, the National League's longest win ended by a home run. Both pitchers go the distance in one of the greatest matchups ever.

» August 23, 1963: Warren Spahn's 601st start is a modern National League record. Grover Alexander had the previous record of 600. The Braves beat the Dodgers, 6–1.

» September 8, 1963: Braves P Warren Spahn (20-5) ties Christy Mathewson's National League record with his 13th 20-win season by notching a 3–2 victory in Philadelphia. Gene Oliver's 2-run home run in the 8th, off Dallas Green, is the deciding blow. At 42, Spahn becomes the oldest 20-game winner.

» April 14, 1964: San Francisco's five home runs match the mark for Opening Day round-trippers. Juan Marichal beats Warren Spahn and the Braves 8–4.

» November 23, 1964: The Mets purchase P Warren Spahn from the Braves. The Future Hall of Famer, now 43, slumped to a 6–13 record in 1964, after winning 23 the year before.

» May 5, 1965: At New York, the Phillies Jim Bunning hits a home run and beats Warren Spahn, 1–0. For Bunning, it is his 6th complete game victory against the Mets in six starts, three of them shutouts.

» August 8, 1965: Recently released by the Mets, Warren Spahn wins his 361st victory and first as a Giant. San Francisco beats the Cards 6–4.

» August 19, 1965: At San Francisco, Don Drysdale faces Warren Spahn in the start of a critical four-game series. Drysdale last longer than Spahn, allowing five runs through eleven innings and leaves with the game tied. The Dodgers win it in 15 innings, 6–5.

» September 6, 1965: At Los Angeles, Don Drysdale and the newly signed Warren Spahn face each other again, but both are gone by extra innings. Drysdale lasts eight innings, but Spahn exits after a 1+ inning ripping. The Giants win, 7–6, in 12 innings on Jim Davenport's hit, and move a game behind the first-place Dodgers. Juan Marichal, who hit John Roseboro over the head with a bat 15 days ago, is banned from the trip.

» April 18, 1969: The American Association opens the season using the DPH rule, which the major leagues dropped near the end of spring training. The DPH will also be used in International League (AAA), the Eastern League (AA), and the Arizona Instructional League. Larry Osborne (Omaha; 0-4,1 BB, one run) and John Brandt (0-4) are the ones in Oklahoma City. Denver's Charles Weatherspoon (1-4) and William Wolff (1-3, one BB) are the DPHers in Tulsa. Tulsa manager Warren Spahn calls the DPH rule "terrible." (as noted by John Lewis).

» January 24, 1973: Warren Spahn is elected to the Hall of Fame in his first try on the BBWAA ballot, receiving 316 of 380 votes.

» August 6, 1973: Roberto Clemente and Warren Spahn head the list of new inductees at Cooperstown. Clemente is the first Latin-born player to achieve membership at Cooperstown. The Rangers beat the Pirates in the Hall of Fame game 6–4.

» July 19, 1982: In the first annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot homer off Warren Spahn to help the AL to a 7–2 win over the NL in a 5-inning battle of retired baseball stars.