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Warren Spahn, the winningest left-handed pitcher in major league baseball history, passed away today at his home at the age of 82. My boyhood friends and I called him Warren "Blackjack" Spahn, because he always won 21. To me the most amazing thing about Spahnie is that he had only 8 wins on his 26th birthday, but finished with 363. He won 277 games after he turned 30. He had his best W-L record (23-7) at age 42. He had thirteen twenty win seasons altogether, including 8 different years when he won exactly 21 games. Blackjack.