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Cy Young pitches first perfect game in MLB history
On May 5, 1904, 37-year-old Cy Young pitches the first perfect game in modern Major League Baseball history as the Boston Americans defeat the Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0. Young strikes out eight of the 27 batters he faces and benefits from excellent defense in a game that is completed in only 83 minutes. "Unparalleled feat,” a newspaper calls the achievement. A perfect game is achieved when a pitcher retires all the batters he faces in order, with no one reaching base.
Two other pitchers—Lee Richmond and John Ward—recorded perfect games in 1880, but the rules then were significantly different from modern baseball rules, which were established in 1893. Before the modern rules, it took eight balls to walk a batter and the distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate was 45 feet. (The distance is 60 feet, 6 inches today.)
Young's perfect game was part of his then-record 45-inning scoreless streak.
To throw Young off his rhythm, volatile Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell, a future Hall of Famer, ran his mouth to You
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Cy Young
Cy Young is a name familiar to all but the most casual of baseball fans, well over 100 years after his pitching career ended. After all, he is the one the Cy Young Award is named after, the award given every year to the best pitcher in each league. Young also holds numerous baseball records, including some that are unlikely to be broken, including both the most wins by any pitcher (511) and the most complete games (749).1
The years in which Young pitched in the major leagues (1890-1911) saw a number of significant changes in baseball, which included an increase in the distance from the pitcher’s mound to home plate, and the introduction of the foul strike rule.2 Sixteen times Young was a 20-game winner, and in five of those seasons he was actually a 30-game winner. There were even three seasons when he lost more than 20 games, but each time he came back and won as many as or more the following year.
He was present at the birth of the American League and threw the first pitch ever thrown in a World Series game. Winning two games in the 1903 World Series, Young also
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Cy Young
American baseball player (1867–1955)
For other uses, see Cy Young (disambiguation).
Baseball player
| Cy Young | |
|---|---|
Young with the Cleveland Naps in 1911 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born:(1867-03-29)March 29, 1867 Gilmore, Ohio, U.S. | |
| Died: November 4, 1955(1955-11-04) (aged 88) Newcomerstown, Ohio, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| August 6, 1890, for the Cleveland Spiders | |
| October 11, 1911, for the Boston Rustlers | |
| Win–loss record | 511–315 |
| Earned run average | 2.63 |
| Strikeouts | 2,803 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Managerial record at Baseball Reference | |
| As player As manager | |
MLB records
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| Induction | 1937 |
| Vote | 76.1% (second ballot) |
Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. Born in Gilmore, Ohio, he worked on his family's farm as a youth befor
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