Spahn And Sain And Pray For Rain

[JollyElm]

It's strange, because the adage "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" is easily misconstrued if you don't know the background of it. In a vacuum, it seems it's the competition bemoaning the Braves staff. In other words, with Spahn and Sain being so great, they pray for rain so they don't have to face yet another unbeatable Boston hurler. The fact the quote refers to the team basically saying THEY themselves have nothing but Spahn and Sain, has always struck me as odd. Kind of a backhanded compliment?

[Gorditadogg]

'48 Bowman, Sain and Spahn.

[gonefishin]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

'48 Bowman, Sain and Spahn.

Great looking 48's, but is that a pen change on the back of Sain - right hander?

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by gonefishin

Great looking 48's, but is that a pen change on the back of Sain - right hander?

It's an ink blot, probably from the printing process.

Here's another 1948 Spahn.

[Chris-Counts]

Here's a 1951 Bowman Sain and a Hartland of Spahn.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

It's strange, because the adage "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" is easily misconstrued if you don't know the background of it. In a vacuum, it seems it's the competition bemoaning the Braves staff. In other words, with Spahn and Sain being so great, they pray for rain so they don't have to face yet another unbeatable Boston hurler. The fact the quote refers to the team basically saying THEY themselves have nothing but Spahn and Sain, has always struck me as odd. Kind of a backhanded compliment?

Historically, most starting staffs have two guys that make the other two or three seem like stumblebums by comparison.