In major league baseball's 86-year history, only twelve pitchers had managed to win 300 games, a feat last performed by Lefty Grove in 1941. Fortnight ago Milwaukee's balding, 40-year-old Warren Spahn made it by hurling a tidy six-hitter against the Chicago Cubs, thereby virtually assuring his nomination to baseball's exclusive Hall of Fame. Last week, still improving an indifferent season's record (13 wins, twelve losses), Spahn allowed the Pittsburgh Pirates ten widely scattered hits, won his 301st victory to become the winningest pitcher alive. If Spahn's durable left arm lasts another season, he can conceivably break the record set 44 years...
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