Cy Young

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baseball award baseball player human pitcher

Cy Young was a legendary American Major League Baseball pitcher whose dominance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the sport’s most prestigious pitching award being named in his honor.

Aliases (1)

Cy Young Award ×4

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	baseball award → baseball player → human → pitcher →
bats	right →
burialPlace	Newcomerstown, Ohio, United States →
careerLosses	316 →
careerWins	511 →
causeOfDeath	myocardial infarction →
completeGames	749 →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1867-03-29 →
dateOfDeath	1955-11-04 →
earnedRunAverage	2.63 →
era	19th-century baseball → early 20th-century baseball →
finalMLBGameDate	1911-10-11 →
finalMLBTeam	Boston Rustlers →
fullName	Denton True Young →
givenFor	best pitcher in Major League Baseball →
givenName	Denton →
hallOfFame	National Baseball Hall of Fame →
hallOfFameInductionYear	1937 →
handedness	right-handed pitcher →
hasAwardNamedAfter	Cy Young Award →
holdsRecord	most career complete games in MLB → most career innings pitched in MLB → most career wins by an MLB pitcher →
inductedIntoHallOfFame	National Baseball Hall of Fame →
inningsPitched	7356.0 →
league	Major League Baseball →
memberOfSportsTeam	Boston Americans → Boston Red Sox → Boston Rustlers → Cleveland Naps → Cleveland Spiders → St. Louis Cardinals → St. Louis Perfectos →
MLBDebutDate	1890-08-06 →
MLBDebutTeam	Cleveland Spiders →
namedAfter	Cy Young → a cyclone-inspired nickname due to his fast pitches →
nickname	Cy Young →
notableAchievement	pitched the first perfect game in American League history in 1904 →
occupation	professional baseball player →
placeOfBirth	Gilmore, Ohio, United States →
placeOfDeath	Newcomerstown, Ohio, United States →
playedFor	Boston Americans → Boston Red Sox → Boston Rustlers → Cleveland Naps → Cleveland Spiders → St. Louis Cardinals → St. Louis Perfectos →
positionPlayed	pitcher →
sexOrGender	male →
shutouts	76 →
sport	baseball → baseball →
stateOfBirth	Ohio →
stateOfDeath	Ohio →
strikeouts	2803 →
teamIn1903WorldSeries	Boston Americans →
teamOfPerfectGame	Boston Americans →
throws	right →
winLossRecord	511–316 →
worldSeriesChampion	1903 →
yearOfPerfectGame	1904 →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cy Young Award → Cy Young Award →	namedAfter
Cy Young Award →	abbreviation
Cy Young →	nickname
1903 World Series →	notablePlayerTeam1