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My Take
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.
1. Profile
- 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
2. Background
- 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
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.cmgworldwide.com/baseball/young
- 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
Frequently asked questions
When was Cy Young born?
March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955.
Where is Cy Young from?
Cy Young is from Gilmore, Ohio, United States.
What does Cy Young do?
Cy Young works as baseball player.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.