August 6, 1890
It was on
this day in 1890, that Cy Young made his Major League debut, pitching for the
Cleveland Spiders, against the Chicago Colts in Chicago’s West Side Park. Young
would get credited with the victory in an 8-1 Spiders’ win. He would go on
to win a total of 511 games in his Major League Career, a record that still
stands to his day.
Young
would die in 1955 and the following year he was honoured with an award named
after him, given to the best pitcher in baseball, as voted by the Baseball
Writers Association of America. In 1967, it was decided that a Cy Young Award
be awarded in both the American League and National League.
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