Spahn & Sain by Gerald V. Hern

Two great pitchers in a lineup. So good in fact that someone took the time to write a poem about them. A small phrase was taken from the poem and it began a life all its own...

"It's not so much my pitching people know, but that little poem about me and Johnny Sain with the forty-eight Braves." - Warren Spahn

First we'll use Spahn
then we'll use Sain
Then an off day
followed by rain
Back will come Spahn
followed by Sain
And followed
we hope
by two days of rain.

Warren Spahn once commented, "Guys who were kids forty years ago learned it as a nursery rhyme. Now they meet me and say, 'Oh, you're that Spahn.'"

Why did Gerald Hern write the poem? He had heard Billy Southworth, manager of the Boston Braves, say, "From here on I will rotate my pitching staff. Spahn one day, Sain the next."

Did you know that while the two immortalized teammates were on the team together they combined to win two-hundred twelve games?