Cy Young

Okay, how legendary do you have to be to have the sport's top pitching award literally named after you? That's Cy Young in a nutshell, and I find it kind of beautiful that an Ohio farm kid born back in 1867 ended up as the yardstick every ace gets measured against. I love that his story is all stubborn endurance rather than flash, the guy just kept toeing the rubber across two decades, from the Cleveland Spiders through Boston and St. Louis, racking up a win total nobody will ever sniff again. To me he's less a personality and more a monument, the quiet workhorse who built the foundation of the whole game. He passed in 1955, but honestly his name gets called out every single October, so he never really left. Total respect.

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Name (English)

Cy Young

Name (Japanese)

サイ・ヤング

Reading

さい・やんぐ

Born

March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

Origin

Gilmore, Ohio, United States

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Newcomerstown High School

Awards & achievements

• 1937 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• 1995 Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame
• 1999 Major League Baseball All-Century Team

• Official sitehttp://www.cmgworldwide.com/baseball/young
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy%20Young
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362264

Tags

• Ohio
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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