In 1948, the
Boston Braves won what turned out to be their final pennant during their tenure at Boston, behind the pitching of future Hall of Famer
Warren Spahn and his teammate
Johnny Sain. The remainder of the rotation was seemingly so thin that in September,
Boston Post writer Gerald Hern wrote a poem about the pair: :''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. The poem received such a wide audience that the sentiment, usually now paraphrased as "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" or "Spahn and Sain, then pray for rain", is now considered a part of baseball lore. ==References==