Cy Young was a well known baseball player of America
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Cy Young was a well known baseball player of America
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He married Robba whom he knew since his childhood days. Robba passed away in 1933.
He breathed his last at the age of 88 on his farm and was buried in Peoli, Ohio.
To honour his memory, Northeastern University unveiled a statue of him on the site of the Huntington Avenue Grounds where he pitched the first game of the 1903 World Series.
Born in Gilmore, Ohio, United States, Cy Young was the eldest of the five children of McKinzie Young, Jr. and Nancy Miller. He was named Denton True Young.
To earn livelihood, he left his studies after the sixth grade. He played as part of a number of amateur baseball leagues during his youth. In this context, his performance for Carrollton team in 1888 deserves special mention.
He started his professional career in 1889 with Canton, a professional minor league team. During his stint with Canton, he won 15 games and lost another 15 games.
In 1890, he signed contract with the Cleveland Spiders. On August 6 of the same year, he pitched a three-hit shutout during his major league debut. When he played matches for Cleveland Spiders, Chief Zimmer was his catcher in most of the games. The season of 1890 witnessed remarkable performance of Young. On the final day of the season, he won both games of a doubleheader.
The 1892 regular season proved to be a successful season for him. During the 1892 season, the National League started using a split season format. Though the Spiders won the second-half title, it was the Boston Beaneaters, the winner of the first-half title, who won the series. Though he pitched three games, yet he lost two decisions. In spite of his throwing of a complete game shutout, the game ended in a 0-0 tie.
In 1895, the Cleveland Spiders faced the Baltimore Orioles in the Temple Cup. In this series, the Cleveland’s victory in three matches helped it to win the Cup. During this time, he applied a new technique of pitching called ‘changeup’ to reduce stress on his arm.
In the following year, he lost a no-hitter with two outs in the ninth innings when Philadelphia Phillies’s Ed Delahanty hit a single.
In spite of being a sixth grade graduate, this successful baseball player acted as a pitching coach at the prestigious Harvard University in February 1902.