"Spahn and Sain and pray for rain."

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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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