TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2014

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THE EDMOND SUN

SPAHN: Edmonds Gray sculpts trophy

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recipient of the 2014

Warren Spahn Award.
The prestige of this award
isnt lost on me. I am also
grateful for the opportunity to play alongside so
many awesome teammates who provide the
support and confidence
for me to do my job,
Kershaw said in
November. Spahn was a
great pitcher with a legendary career. To be at
the annual Warren Spahn
Award Gala the evening
of Jan. 14 is pretty special.
Thank you for the privilege of representing this
award for the 2014 baseball season.
The award is given in
honor of the late National
Hall of Fame left-hander
Warren Spahn, an
Oklahoman who accomplished something few
Major League Baseball
pitchers have. Spahns
363 wins led the majors
from 1942-65.
Kershaw coming to
Oklahoma City in Jan. 14
adds even more to local
Dodger news lately since
they are the newly
announced parent club
of the Triple-A Oklahoma
City Dodgers.
The award winner
receives permanent possession of a bronze trophy sculpted by noted
Edmond artist Shan Gray,
who worked closely with
Spahn while sculpting
the bronze award depicting the legend in his
windup as a Milwaukee
Brave. The 37-pound trophy stands 27.5 inches
tall. The 16-inch silicate
bronze statue atop the
trophy is mounted on an
11.5-inch bell-shaped
base with a black and
gold marble capstone.
Originally created as a
work of art, it was first
appraised at $15,000 in
1999.
Former award winners
are Gio Gonzalez (2012),
Kershaw (2011, 2013),
David Price (2010), C.C.
Sabathia (20072009),
Johan Santana (2004,
2006), Dontrelle Willis
(2005), Andy Pettitte

(2003) and Randy

Johnson (19992002).
Three identical 9-foot
bronze versions of the
statue created by
Edmonds Gray and cast
by John Free Jr. at the
Bronze Horse Foundry in
Pawhuska, also honor
Spahn. They are on display at the Atlanta Braves
Turner Field Monument
Grove and outside the
museum at 4040 N.
Lincoln in Oklahoma City
and the
Chickasaw
Bricktown
Ballpark.
Spahn
died in
2003 at 82
soon after
the dedication of
Spahn
the first
version of his statue at
Turner Field.
Already 6-3 and 215
pounds, the Dodgers
drafted Kershaw out of
high school in 2006 from
Dallas. He became a
starting pitcher in 2008 as
the youngest player in
the National League.
Now he is a power
pitcher and the youngest
to win three Spahn
Awards. Kershaw is closing in on Randy Johnsons
record of four consecutive wins from 1999-2002,
when Johnson also threw
the most strikeouts ever
in baseball over those
four seasons.
C.C. Sabathia won his
third consecutive Spahn
Award in 2009 as a
Yankee.
Spahns importance to
the sport is more than
being the winningest
lefty pitcher ever.
Among all pitchers
whose entire careers were
in the post-1920 era,
Spahn has the most
shutouts (63) and the
most complete games
(382).
Kershaw is reaching
importance to baseball
quickly as well by posting
the lowest ERA of any
big-league starter with
1,000 innings since World
War II.

Oklahoma Citys
Bricktown Rotary Club
and the Oklahoma Sports
Hall of Fame host the
gala that includes other
awards. It is the only
Oklahoma event honoring a major league athlete.
Ferguson Jenkins, of
Guthrie, presents awards
to 10 top Oklahoma high
school baseball and softball athletes each year
during the gala. The
youngsters receive the
Ferguson Jenkins
Outstanding Student
Athlete Award from the
Hall of Fame hurler who
led MLB in wins from
1967-80 with 251.
High school softball
and baseball coaches
each receive a Jenkins
award as well. As a former 17-year resident and
Oklahoma sports supporter, he presents his
awards to five baseball
players and five softball
players who distinguish
themselves on and off the
field.
The Rotary also presents the annual Bill
Teegins Excellence in
Sportscasting Award.
That award was created
to honor sportscasters
with Oklahoma ties who
portray Teegins qualities,
organizers said. Teegins
gave many hours to the
Oklahoma sports community. Teegins volunteered as master of ceremonies for the 2000
Warren Spahn Award
Gala a week before he
died in a plane crash in
rural Colorado in early
2001.
It was the last public
appearance for the popular KWTV News9 sports
director and eight-time
Oklahoma Sportscaster
of the Year. He was
inducted posthumously
into the Oklahoma
Association of
Broadcasters Hall of
Fame in 2002.

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