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June 3, 2011
Yell County native and major league baseball pitcher Johnny Sain (right) compiled 139 career wins, the third highest of an Arkansas native, surpassed only by Lon Warneke and Dizzy Dean. His best years were a four-year stretch (1946-1950) with the Boston Braves. He and future Baseball Hall of Fame member Warren Spahn (left) were part of a famous Boston quip, “Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.” Sain served as a pitching coach from 1959 to 1986.