Word: cy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That summer Cy Young pitched 26 full games and finished ten others. A little later the league folded, and Canton's owner got a new suit of clothes for trading Cy to Cleveland, then in the National League...
...Stuff. Even in that era of iron men, the 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ib. fireballer was a standout. In 22 years divided between Cleveland, St. Louis and Boston in the National League, and Boston and Cleveland in the American League, he started in 874 games and won 511. Cy always claimed that he had won 512; either way his record is still unbroken. Unbroken also is his record of appearing in a total of 906 games, his lifetime pitching average of .619, his losing record of 315, and the astonishing record of 23 consecutive hitless innings he pitched...
...league ball player, Cy never earned more than $2,500 a season, but he thought nothing of working in both halves of a double header. He never bothered much with fancy stuff-never threw a spitter even though it was legal, never relaxed with a change of pace. He relied on his fast ball and a variety of tricky curves...
...Boys Are Bunting. No matter how often he pitched, Cy Young could always hold his own with the best of his day. Rube Waddell of the old Athletics, Cleveland's Addie Joss, Ed Walsh of the White Sox, Amos Rusie of the Giants, Washington's Walter Johnson-sooner or later, Cy Young matched them all. In 1911 when he played for Boston, Cy's rubber right arm was still strong, but his legs were slowing down. "The boys are bunting on me," he said. "When the third baseman has to start doing my work...
...Cy Young retired to his farm near Peoli, Ohio. For a short, sad period in the 19303, he hit the road again with a team of baseball has-beens, playing the tank towns for coffee and cake. It was a losing effort from the start. In 1937, he was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. After that Cyclone Young was content-and he was really retired...