He won 363 games and lost 3 full seasons to WWII, where he was a combat engineer who saw action in the Battle of the bulge and awarded the Purple Heart. Not much more needs to be said.
Marichal was no slouch either. He was as tough as they came in his day. There’s a reason he’s in the Hall of Fame as well.
That is interesting. The German commander of the SS almost made it before the engineers blew the bridges just as he got to them.
I remember his comment was they lost because of those damn Combat Engineers. Spahn might have been one of those doing the demolition work.