10 Facts About NL Cy Young Award

1. NL Cy Young Award played in an era before all-star teams were chosen and post-season awards distributed, but in 1955 he received a singular, posthumous honor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. NL 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.

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

10. NL 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.