One year after Young's death, the Cy Young Award was created to honor the previous season's best pitcher.

" Cy Young's nickname came from the fences that he had destroyed using his fastball.

In 1956, about one year after Young's death, the Cy Young Award was created.

Given this, sabermetricians generally regard Cy Young's total of 749 complete games as the career baseball record most unlikely to ever be broken.

* Waddell was the opposing pitcher for Cy Young's perfect game on May 5, 1904, and hit a flyball for the final out.

A catcher for most of Cy Young's 511 victories, he also caught every inning for eight games with Boston in the first-ever World Series in 1903, helping his team win the championship.

Cy Young is tied with Roger Clemens for the most career wins by a Boston Red Sox pitcher.

An 11-time All-Star and two-time World Series champion, he won seven Cy Young Awards during his career, the most of any pitcher in MLB history.

McLain was a three-time All-Star and won the Cy Young Award twice in his career.

The all-time leader for games started is Cy Young with 815 over a 22-year career.

He pitched from 1965 to 1988 for six different teams in his career, but it is his time with the Philadelphia Phillies where he received his greatest acclaim as a professional and won four Cy Young Awards.

He was the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards in a career.

The 39-year old Perry wound up winning the Cy Young Award going 21 – 6 for San Diego while the 29-year-old Tomlin never pitched for Texas and pitched barely 150 innings the rest of his career.

Wakefield won his 200th career game on September 13, 2011 against the Toronto Blue Jays, and is third on the Boston Red Sox with 186 team victories, behind both Cy Young and Roger Clemens, who have 192 each.

Had he played, it is possible that Spahn would have finished his career behind only Cy Young in all-time wins.

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Galvin played in an era where 2-man pitching rotations were common-hence his 6, 003 innings pitched and 646 complete games, both of which are second only to the career totals of Cy Young.

He is best known for his prolific career of more than two decades with the Atlanta Braves, in which he garnered eight All-Star selections and received the Cy Young Award in 1996.

He was a five-time 20-game winner and two-time Cy Young Award winner, and one of only 24 pitchers ( and just 6 left-handers ) in major league history to earn 300 career wins.

When she started collaborating with Cy Coleman in the 1960s, her career took a new turn.

Feller was the third pitcher, after Larry Corcoran and Cy Young, to record three career no-hitters.

Before beginning his fabled Broadway career, he led the Cy Coleman Trio, which made many recordings and was a much-in-demand club attraction.

Until 2011 when Detroit Tigers Pitcher Justin Verlander did it, Newcombe was the only baseball player to have won the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards in his career.

In a March 17, 1932, game against the New York Americans, Morenz scored his 334th point with an assist, passing Cy Denneny as the NHL record holder for career points.

Both Cy Young and Walter Johnson had slurves in their arsenals and Cy Young is the earliest known user of the pitch, having started his career in 1890.

A career ERA of 2. 63 ties him with Cy Young.

His career win-loss record was just 100-123 ; he remains the only Cy Young winner with a losing record ( among starting pitchers who played their whole career in the major leagues ).

Seven pitchers recorded all or the majority of their career wins in the 19th century: Galvin, Cy Young, Kid Nichols, Tim Keefe, John Clarkson, Charley Radbourn, and Mickey Welch.

At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

The Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball ( MLB ), one each for the American League ( AL ) and National League ( NL ).

Cy Young, for whom the award is named

He is an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and 2004 World Series champion.

He is one of only seven pitchers to throw both a perfect game and an additional no-hitter, the others being Randy Johnson, Sandy Koufax, Addie Joss, Cy Young, Mark Buehrle, and fellow Phillie Roy Halladay, whose additional no-hitter came in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series.

* January 12 – Steve Carlton, winner of 329 games and four Cy Young Awards, is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The record for most errors made by a pitcher in one inning is three, first set by Cy Seymour in 1898.

In addition, there is the Soundtrack album Better Off Dead on A & M Records, featuring Rupert Hine, Cy Curnin ( The Fixx ), Martin Ansell, Terri Nunn, Thinkman, and E. G. Daily.

Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon.

* November 5: The Cy Young Award is announced, with Jim Palmer taking the award over Fidrych.

Many Razorbacks players have gone on to the majors, perhaps the most successful is Cliff Lee, the 2008 AL Cy Young Award Winner, with the most recent being Dallas Kuechel of the Houston Astros ..

With 363 wins, Spahn is the 6th most winning pitcher in history, trailing only Cy Young ( 511 ), Walter Johnson ( 417 ), Grover Cleveland Alexander ( 373 ), Christy Mathewson ( 373 ), and Pud Galvin ( 364 ) on MLB's all-time list.

Yet another notable pitcher who throws a slider is Hall of Famer Rollie Fingers who used the pitch to win a Cy Young Award in 1981.

Hershiser is the only player to receive the Cy Young Award, the Championship Series MVP Award, and the World Series MVP Award in the same season.

Said to have been able to speak with a voice that resembled a squeak, he was actually one of the most intelligent players of his time, and is sometimes credited with developing the hand signals used by umpires to this day, though this view is widely disputed ; Cy Rigler is believed to have created signals for balls and strikes while working in the minor leagues ( although, in the November 6, 1886 issue of The Sporting News, the deaf pitcher Ed Dundon is credited as using hand signals while umpiring a game in Mobile, Alabama on October 20 of that year ), and Bill Klem is credited with introducing those signals to the major leagues.