"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain."
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Bapopik at AOL.COM
Fri Nov 10 05:15:17 UTC 2006
Is this in Fred's book?
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/sports/baseball/09sain.html?ref=obituaries_
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/sports/baseball/09sain.html?ref=obituaries)
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Johnny Sain, who teamed with Warren Spahn to pitch the Boston Braves to the
1948 National League championship in a pennant race that inspired an enduring
baseball rhyme, died Tuesday in Downers Grove, Ill. He was 89.
The cause was complications from a stroke, said his wife, Maryann.
Sain was a 20-game winner four times, pitched on three World Series
championship teams with the _Yankees_
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/baseball/majorleague/newyorkyankees/index.html?inline=nyt-org) and was a renowned
pitching coach. He was best remembered for the closing weeks of the 1948
season.
On Sept. 14, The Boston Post carried a four-line poem by Gerry Hern, the
newspaper’s sports editor, calling upon Spahn, the _Braves_
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/baseball/majorleague/atlantabraves/index.html?inline=nyt-
org) ’ future Hall of Fame left-hander, and Sain, their outstanding
right-hander, to bear the pitching burden, resting on off days and — if luck was with
the Braves — when it rained.
The rhyme was shortened by Braves fans to “Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.”
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