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Baseball signed by Boston Braves all star pitchers Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain with the famed Inscription "Pray for Rain 1948",
According to baseball historians, late in the ’48 season an unusual series of circumstances took place. Due to a couple of off days and a game or two postponed due to rain, the amazing pitching duo of Spahn and Sain were able to start almost all of their team’s games over a two week period giving them a record of 8 wins and 0 losses over a 12 day period! A few days later, with another 12 day stretch in mind, a Boston Post Sports Editor further immortalized Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain when he wrote this poem for the newspaper:
"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
This untitled poem soon took the name, and has since been known simply as –
Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain"