Regrets, I’ve Had a Few … (Part 2 of 2)

Warren Spahn

Along with Sandy Koufax and Steve Carlton, Spahn is on the short list of greatest left-handed starting pitchers in baseball history.  He played most of his twenty-one seasons in Boston and Milwaukee, and like many of the players of his era, took three seasons off from baseball to serve in the United States Army during World War II.  Spahn amassed 363 career wins, was an All-Star seventeen times, and won the American League earned run average title three times.  He won a World Series and the Cy Young Award in 1967.

In 1973, his first year on the ballot, Spahn was elected to the Hall of Fame, receiving more than 83% of the votes cast.  Some of Spahn’s earliest cards were issued in 1948.  A Bowman copy from that year in PSA 4 condition can be purchased for around $350.