Sport: Great, Great, Great

The great pitchers in baseball's record book are mostly names out of a distant past, men like Christy Mathewson. Cy Young, Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander. But since 1946 a hawk-nosed lefthander with a marvelously smooth motion has been setting down National League batters with such consistency that he now must be classed with the giants of the game. Last week Milwaukee's 39-year-old Warren Spahn could look back on another superb season at an age when most stars have long since retired to sell insurance or peddle beer.

Just a few days before, Spahn had pitched the first no-hitter of his 15-year...

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