45 Facts About Cy Young Award

1. Cy Young Award was in good shape when deGrom formally accepted it last month at the Baseball Writers' Association of America dinner in Manhattan.

2. Cy Young Award was promoted from assistant pitching coach to pitching coach, with Kranitz ultimately being named pitching coach of the Atlanta Braves, a sign that the Phillies decision to move on from Kranitz spoke more about their belief in Young than a dissatisfaction in the job Kranitz had done.

3. Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

4. Cy Young Award is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball, one each for the American League and National League.

5. Cy Young Award retired after the 1911 season with 511 career wins.

6. Cy Young Award was traded back to Cleveland before the 1909 season, this time to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.

7. In 1901, Cy Young Award left St Louis and joined the American League's Boston Americans for a $3,500 contract.

8. On September 18, 1897, Cy Young Award pitched the first no-hitter of his career in a game against the Cincinnati Reds.

9. In 1890, Cy Young Award signed for $500 with the Cleveland Spiders, which had moved up from the American Association to the National League the previous year.

10. Cy Young Award began his professional career in 1889 with the Canton, Ohio team of the Tri-State League, a professional minor league.

11. Cy Young Award stopped going to school after he finished 6th grade.

12. Cy Young Award went by the name "Dent Cy Young Award" in his early years.

13. Cy Young Award was born in Gilmore, Ohio, a farming community in eastern Ohio.

14. Cy Young Award had 76 career shutouts, the fourth most in history.

15. Cy Young Award was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

16. Denton True "Cy" Cy Young Award was an American baseball player who was a pitcher for five different professional baseball teams from 1890 to 1911.

17. Cy Young Award threw the first pitch of the modern World Series in 1903, eventually helping the Red Sox knock off the Pittsburgh Pirates in eight games.

18. Cy Young Award set the then-record of 45 consecutive scoreless innings; and pitched 24 consecutive no-hit innings.

19. Cy Young Award was truly the toast of the town in Boston at the beginning of the 20th century.

20. Denton True "Cy" Cy Young Award was born March 29, 1867, in the farming community of Gilmore, Ohio.

21. Cy Young Award went back to his farm in tiny Peoli, Ohio, near Newcomerstown.

22. Cy Young Award dispelled the talk that he was washed up, and became one of the new league's biggest stars.

23. Cy Young Award was one of three pitchers who dominated the 1890s, along with Kid Nichols and Amos Rusie.

24. Cy Young Award was one of the few pitchers who did as well after the change as before.

25. Cy Young Award won the first game of the championship series against Boston, the spring champs, but the Spiders lost the rest of the games.

26. Cy Young Award pitched his first major league game on August 6, 1890.

27. Cy Young Award spent two more years playing semi-pro ball, pitching and playing second base in 1889 for a team in New Athens that won its local championship.

28. Cy Young Award led his league in strikeouts twice, and in shutouts seven times.

29. Cy Young Award's earned run average was below 2.00 six times, but this was not uncommon during the dead-ball era.

30. Cy Young Award won two ERA titles during his career, in 1892 and in 1901 (1.62), and was three times the runner-up.

31. Cy Young Award took part in many baseball events after his retirement.

32. Cy Young Award was traded back to Cleveland, the place where he played over half his career, before the 1909 season, to the Cleveland Naps of the American League.

33. At this time, Cy Young Award was the second-oldest player in either league.

34. In 1908, Cy Young Award pitched the third no-hitter of his career.

35. Cy Young Award performed better in subsequent games, winning his next two starts.

36. Cy Young Award left St Louis and joined the American League's Boston Americans for a $3,500 contract.

37. Cy Young Award spent two years with St Louis, which is where he found his favorite catcher, Lou Criger.

38. Two years after Cy Young Award's debut, the National League moved the pitcher's position back by 5 feet.

39. Early on, Cy Young Award established himself as one of the harder-throwing pitchers in the game.

40. Cy Young Award began his professional career in 1889 with the Canton, Ohio, team of the Tri-State League, a professional minor league.

41. In that game, Cy Young Award played first base and had three hits in three at-bats.

42. Cy Young Award played for many amateur baseball leagues during his youth, including a "semi-pro" Carrollton team in 1888.

43. Cy Young Award compiled 511 wins, which is most in Major League history and 94 ahead of Walter Johnson, second on the list.

44. Cy Young Award established numerous pitching records, some of which have stood for over a century.

45. Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford C Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.