Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

The winningest left-hander in baseball history, Warren Spahn won 363 games over 20 seasons (including 4 with the 1965 Mets).  He won 20 or more games 13 times, leading the league in victories 8 times.

In 1963, at age 42, Spahn threw 15 1/3 innings of shut-out ball – that’s in one game!  By the way, that 16-inning game lasted just over 4 hours, or less time than your typical Yankees game today

From the mid-40’s through the early 60’s Spahn dominated the National League.  He is clearly  an Immortal

For some background on what this is, check out the introduction post here.

Oh sure, Media Goon writes here for a decade and I’m lucky if the post has an image, now he has his own site and he has fancy split screen videos.  He’s like the Mike Scott of bloggers.  Where was this level of game in 2006 pal?

Anyway, he spoke to the Colon Book guy.  Wait that sounds weird.  Bartolo Colon book titled Big Sexy.   That.

And by the way, you don’t want to just type “Big Sexy” into Amazon.  All sorts of things pop up.  Let me just say Pocket and kitten.   Explain that one to the wife.  Um, I was blogging and trying to link to Keith’s video and the book is called Big Sexy and um….

Watch the video below so we don’t reward Goon with clicks mwahahaha.

Big Sexy: In His Own Words” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>The book is available here.

Oh wait….that’s not a Mets yearbook but it is Shea Stadium.  This is a Mets Yearbook.

My mind went to John Mitchell, one of our 1987 heroes….but then I remembered, there is one clear best 43.

From 1961 to 1966 Sandy Koufax absolutely dominated the National League.  In 6 years he won 3 Cy Youngs and an MVP, led the league in ERA 4 times, 3 of them under 2.00.  In his last 2 years Koufax won 53 games and had only 17 losses with a combined 1.89 ERA and 699 strikeouts with just 148 walks.  

Absolute dominance!

Oh and did I mention 3 no-hitters including a perfect game?

There is no doubt that Sandy Koufax is an Immortal

For some background on what this is, check out the introduction post here.