European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. July 26. 1986 the stars and stripes Page Lomarr Centary old timers need Spahn s Best pitch it is the nose you notice first. It is an Impe rious Insi Rumen aloof disdainful regal. You imag Ine Caesar had such a nose. Cyrano. De Gaulle certainly did. It has a nobility All its own. The nose of a Man who likes to Lake charge. The eyes that sight Down along its moraines and crevasses Are alight with inquisitiveness. Wariness alertness. They Are the eyes of the soul going through Indian country in Advance of the Wagon train. They see everything nibs nothing. The profile is right off a Buffalo Nickel and for 21 Yean in the big leagues National league Batten would curse when they jaw it out on the Mound taking that Peculiar Long Windup like a Condor taking off kicking that Ted foot High in the air and sending a Ball Pla Leward that came up there like a hound dog going Home along a picket Fence full of detours slops or unexpected reappearance. Anyway you want to look at it Warren Spahn is the Best left handed Pitcher baseball has Ever seen. You want victories he bad 363 of them. With four Yean out for military  want 20-game seasons he had ii of them More than any other left hander who Ever pitched. You want strikeouts he led the league four times in those. No Hilten he got two of those one when he was 39 and the other when he Wai 40. Shutouts he bad 63 of those. You look at the numbers and you picture to your self Tome troglodyte with Blue steel Beard and a Tattoo and a fastball in the 105-Mph Range. Warren Spahn had a fastball but you did t need a radar gun to Dock in a Calendar might have done on Tomei Nighti. It did t glow in the dark on ils Way to the plate. But it never came up there in the tame place twice. It never came where or when the Batter was expecting if he did t even have a curve Ball. Not in the sense that Bob Feller or Sandy Koufax did. Warren Spahn never threw a predictable pitch in his life. The Batter who guessed was at his mercy. He studied Hilten the Way some people study Buttorf aft and pinned them the mine Way. They we creature of habit Spahn Uyi they will react in a Given situation in the same Way three times out of three Hitten have pitches they will never swing at. According to Spahn. You throw these for strikes. Hit ten also have pitches they will always swing at he says. You throw these for balls. The Best pitch in baseball is the pitch that looks like a strike but in the says. Spahnie had a whole Arsenal of those. On the Mound he was part Feller and part Freud. I played with the hitters ego he says. I flattered him up there. The trick was to gel him aggressive. Once you got him in a Macho Frame of mind you could play games with hit mind it was kind of like lion taming for Spahn. The madder he got at the animals the easier it was to get them to do what he wanted them to do. But Spahn rendered to these Caesars the thing that were Caesars i gave them the whole Middle pan of the plate he says. I did t Deal with that at All. The plate is 16 inches wide and i let them have the 10 inches in the Middle. All i wanted were the three inches on either Side. I wanted the Black pan of the plate. The hitter could have the  it was once said that Satchel Paige could throw a whole afternoon of pitches off the Mound and across a gum wrapper in the same spot. And Warren Spahn could throw it across a Dollar and make change for you. He never walked Aman unintentionally the late Charlie Dressen used to say. A two and no Hiag count in baseball is widely considered As a Pitcher being behind the hitter. War Ren Spahn had the hitter right where he wanted him on a two and nothing count. Most pitchers Load up for a cripple in that situation he says. So the Pitcher suns to aim the Ball a batting practice  Spahn always gave them the pitch with the false whiskers and wig in that situation the one that looked like a strike but underneath the hair and dark glasses was Ball 3. Manager Fred Haney used to chirp when the count was 3-1, Well Spahnie b ahead of the hitter  i never threw to the Catcher i threw to the you would think a Paragon of pitching virtuously like this a Modem equivalent of Christy Malhew son Crover Cleveland Alexander. Carl Hubbell would have commanded seven figure salaries in his prime or at least six. Warren Spahn was paid $250 a month when he first came up to the big leagues if the 1942 Boston braves would be called the big leagues. When he came Back after four Yean at War he was rewarded with a raise to $500 a month. When he won 21 games in 1947, he held out fora salary of $21.000 j 1,000 per Victory. If a yacht Gooden wins 11 games this year he will get $95,298 per Victory. The most Warren Spahn Ever got for a season was 187,500, Morait pitchers won t work for that today. So Spahn was in los Angeles to see if he can pull off one More 20-game season for the grand old  time for All the ballplayer who worked in this game for Small pay and upper berths and one bar of soap for the whole Road trip. Spahnie remembers those Cost saving Days. When he broke his nose in Spring training As a Rookie the team president Bob Quinn advised him against get Ting it fixed. Nose jobs give you Tinus trouble later on?1 he soothed. Besides you Don t exactly lookalike Robert Taylor or Tyrone Power anyway. Spahnie has needed two Nandur kerchiefs to blow bit nose Ever since but it was True. He never had Sinius trouble. Neither do elephants. The equitable life Assurance society of americans sponsoring a series of old timers games three in Ning games preceding regularly scheduled major league games and contributing to a fund in support of old time ballplayers. A disgraceful condition has cropped up with some All time Stan like Enos Slaughter reduced to a j400 pension or the wives oblate treat players like Gil Hodges struggling to make cedi  Anaheim portion of this laudable venture took place on a recent saturday evening. Legendary angers like Leon daddy wags Wagner Albie Pearson Bobby Bonds Rudy May and company took on Spahn and fellow Coope Townen like Bob concentrate on just getting the Ball to the Catcher. That s Why their curve alts  Gibson Ernie Banks Bobby Doerr the great Orlan do Cepeda Tommy Davit mudcat Grant and Eddie Malhew. The old timers Are Way behind on the count. In fact it s 3-0 against and the bases Are to add against them. Of course that s exactly the kind of situation Spahn always liked. He s got pm now. Let s watch him come in with his pitch. Thlmahb4 49ers put Dean on waivers by United press International pus Rush specialist Fred Dean who helped san Francisco to two super bowl title in four seasons and was named pfc defensive player of the year in1981, Wai waived thursday by the 49ers. Dean 34, was asked to retire after last season but the agile defensive end never publicly agreed to the club s request de Spile the 49ers proclamation that he had retired. As 1986 training Camp approached Dean said he Lethe still could play and talked of wanting to be traded to the los Angeles raiders. The 49en gave the raiders permits id to test Dean on wednesday. Raiders owner Al Davis who has gotten a great Deal of mileage out of aging defensive stars watched Dean run a few agility drills and 40-Yard dashes. Raiders coach Tom stores said the team wanted to see if Dean s injured knee had healed we wanted 10 see if he was Well and see if he could do some of the things we nil Roundup recall he did so Well Flores said. He looked to be Well however David Perrine Dean s san Diego based agent said a Deal could note worked out with the raiders. The agent said he was unsure of Dean � plans. Dean s expensive contract May have played a critical Rote in san Francisco s disenchantment. He was to receive1290,000 this year with an additional s12s.ooo lust for reporting to Camp. Bar being waived Dean win not get rus s 125,000 Bonus. The Veteran came to san Francisco in a Trade in 1981 from the san Diego chargers. Dean had an immediate Impact on the 49cn, and ended the season with 12ft sacks a san Francisco went on to a super bowl Triumph. In 1983, Dean recorded i7w sacks. However contract problems again Side lined him in 1984 for 1 1 games As the 49ers won another nil championship after the season Dean underwent knee surgery and failed to return to i All pro form. Word Noflin other training Camp news at Charlottesville va., Barry elected in the third round of Theselen Tesee draft by the new Orleans saints was charged with conspiring to distribute less than i kilogram of cocaine Between no vember 1982 and july 1985, us. Attorney John Perry Alderman said. Word a former Virginia running Back was among 1 3 people charged in connection with a four slate cocaine ring. The Cincinnati bengals related train ing Camp opening was to take place Friday at Wilmington College and it Kerned none of the club s first five draft picks would be there. The top draft pick apparently closest to signing was wide receiver Tim Mcgee of Tennessee the bengals see nil on Page 26 Wplf Tott defensive end Fred Dew. Ran sprint far raiders if 01 to lung raw. A = orioles Send Wiggins Young Rayford to  i a. A  7 skid. He month with 32 last August and hit 28 out of  orioles sent sluir., .-.-.,Mike Young and Floyd Rayfor Dio  aaa Rochester following thursday the Baltimore Alan Wiggins of class. A Kun we wow night s game against Chicago general manager Hank Peters announced Wiggins a second baseman was Bat Ting .251 with no Home runs and 11 runs batted in and was in a 6-for-47 skid. He had 21 of the orioles 42 stolen bases this season. Young an outfielder was Balling .236 with five Homen and 30 Bis. Since june 8. He was hitting .186 and he had not homered in 29 games. Young set a team record for Bis in a Mont Las i homers in 985. Rayford. The orioles leading hitter last year with a .306 average was batting .143 with two Home runs and six Bis. Wiggins and Young were optioned to Rochester while Rayford had to give his permission for the move because he was out f. To replace the Trio the orioles called up inf Leader Jackie Gutierrez and catch Rjohn Stefero from Rochester and All Pur pose player Tom Dodd from class a Charlotte. The orioles Are in fourth place in the Al East 6vi games behind