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Cy Young

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A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.


— Cy Young


#get #good #got #hit #lucky

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.


— Cy Young


#get #good #got #hit #lucky

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.


— Cy Young


#dollars #gets #gosh #kid #sign

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.


— Cy Young


#boards #fastball #had #i #show

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.


— Cy Young


#called #ever #fellows #finally #me






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Did you know about Cy Young?

Despite the Spiders' second half run the Beaneaters swept the series five games to none. On September 18 1897 Young pitched the first no-hitter of his career in a game against the Cincinnati Reds. Louis which is where he found his favorite catcher Lou Criger.

He also won at least 30 games in a season five times with ten other seasons of 20 or more wins. In 1999 88 years after his final major league appearance and 44 years after his death editors at The Sporting News ranked Cy Young 14th on their list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players". In addition to wins Young still holds the major league records for most career innings pitched (7355) most career games started (815) and most complete games (749).

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