Warren Spahn: Baseball Rebellion Pitching Breakdown 

Warren was amazing; here's saluting his military record, too!

Never looked into his mechanics much before. Great to see a breakdown of such a legend. Everyone is constantly trying to reinvent the wheel, but much can be learned from the past.

terrific analysis of one of my boyhood heroes, the great Warren Spahn.

Spahn was great. He tossed 63 shutouts. 63!

Proud to have a ball that he pitched at the Polo Grounds against the then NY Giants that was fouled off by Giants' first baseman Whitey Lockman.

You forgot to mention that he earned a battlefield commission in addition to the Purple Heart and Bronze Star (earned at the Remagan Bridge - the bridge actually collapsed into the Rhine River some 20 minutes after being called off of it)

Warren Spahn was the greatest left handed pitcher in major league baseball history, and one of the top 6 pitchers in the game as well.

Smooth as silk

Had he not lost nearly three seasons fighting the NAZI"s, we would be talking about a 400 game winner.

Asked if he'd ever felt more pressure than pitching in the World Series, Spahn responded, "Well, there was the Battle of the Bulge"

My very favorite pitcher

I was right handed, but tried to copy Spahn's delivery throughout my youth in baseball. Another point is that the did not let his back leg velocity carry it past the front leg so that he ended turned away from the batter. He ended facing the batter with his glove in a position to field anything coming back at him. I couldn't tell from this film, but he must have drug his following foot somewhat to allow him to stop while facing the batter without taking anything of the power of the pelvis coming around. As I remember, it's the reason we wore to plates in the old days.

Before Remagan, he was in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

I agree he was the best left handed pitch of all time and very much under appreciated todays experts. Unlike the latest "stand tall and fall" method of throwing over a film front leg, the javelin theory, he was a "drop and drive" pitcher. Like Koufax and Seaver and many others were . To me, his mechanics were very much old school book and , "my opinion too", serve average size young pitched and anyone interested in pitching for more than 5 years better the former mentioned method. He, "sat" on a balance point, just before the drop which allowed his arm to catch up with the rest of his motion. His stride leg crossed the the line created by his left foot to the plate and he landed on of toe first flat foot, not on the heel. Sliding his foot in a slipper, as they used to say, allowing his knee to bend and finishing the drive forward . And he finished balanced with his "zipper line" on that line created from the left foot and the plate. You are correct in saying his motion was the same, no matter the pitch. And his out pitch was a screwball. An old coaches thoughts.

I’m related to him (He was my great grandfather’s cousin)

No better left-hander than Spahn in NL history.

Warren Spahn was the greatest ever...enough said.

Growing up a Spahn fan in California I was tired of hearing about Koufax being the greatest lefty. I learned to appreciate him though, when he refused to be a part of the all 20th century team unless Spahn was included.

Most wins of any pitcher via liveball era ( 1920 ) with THE MASTER at second place with 355 .

He started the famous old timers game in 1982 because he was the only one who could still throw in his 60s.

I always thought of Jim Palmer and Warren Spahn as the 2 smoothest pitchers in baseball.

What is the frame rate? Spahn's pitch is 4 baseballs long as it leaves his hand so the speed can be calculated from that.

39/40 yrs old is no problem for a baseball pitcher who has the gift.

I saw him pitch at Milwaukee County Stadium. He was poetry in motion. He wanted to own a ranch. Salaries weren't then what they are now..

didn't win a game until he was 26.

Greatest LH of all-time. 382 career CG, led NL 9 times & 20+ in 12 seasons. He's the only pitcher in the last 100 years to go more than 9 innings in 3 world series games. Of all the 300 game winners who pitched entirely in the live ball era he owns the 3rd lowest career ERA (3.09). Only Seaver (2.86) & Grove (3.06) are lower but Spahn won 301 games after intergration & before expansion where as Grove won all his before intergration & Seaver won all his after expansion.

He has one of the biggest leg extension angles i guess at 165 degrees

Warren Spahn WAS the greatest lefty of all time. This coming from a fellow lefty and Sandy Koufax fan. Spahn could also hit pretty darn well too!

Spahn wasn't a 1st ballot Hall of Famer which only shows how stupid the sportswriters are who vote of HOF

My teacher's uncle is warren spahn

RANDY JOHNSON CAN SHINE WARREN SPAHNS SHOES. SPAHN A PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT BATTLE OF THE BULGE

Being the winningest lefty doesn't necessarily make Spahn the greatest. Lefty Grove, Whitey Ford and Sandy Koufax are in the running too for greatest lefty ever.

This painful to watch. You are more than nine minutes into the video before you see Spahn complete a pitch. All of your jabbering adds nothing to the video.

He was AWARDED the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart not winning it.