I would like to also point out that the Cy Young Award was not given out until 1956. By this time, half of Spahn's career was over. Spahn had 8 seasons out of a 21 year career in which he was in his peak form for Cy Young Consideration from 1956-1963. In those 8 seasons he won the Cy Young Award once and had 4 additional Top 3 Finishes. That makes for a total of 5 times finishing in the Top 3 for the Cy Young Award. The more impressive part of that fact is that in those days, there was only 1 Cy Young Award presented. The award was not presented to a recipient from each league until 1967. He only hung around for 2 seasons after that 1963 season (he went 22-7 in 1963), so you can't even say he hung around too long.
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