Word: winningest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hitter against the Chicago Cubs, thereby virtually assuring his nomination to baseball's exclusive Hall of Fame. Last week, still improving an indifferent season's record (13 wins, twelve losses), Spahn allowed the Pittsburgh Pirates ten widely scattered hits, won his 301st victory to become the winningest pitcher alive. If Spahn's durable left arm lasts another season, he can conceivably break the record set 44 years ago by Eddie Plank, the only major league southpaw to win 325 games...
...several years America's winningest thoroughbred trainer, Hirsch Jacobs, has selected a few horses from his vast stable to run under the salmon pink and green colors of his pretty daughter Patrice, 23. Last winter the Marymount Junior College alumna was given her first chance to pick her own yearling, and after weeks of study, she chose Hail to Reason-which this summer emerged as the nation's top two-year-old. But last week in an early-morning workout at Aqueduct, the horse that Patrice felt had "developed the nicest personality I've seen...