Cy Young pitched the most innings in baseball history, with 7,356 innings, won 511 games, and set the record for most games completed. He threw the first perfect game in American League history and the Cy Young Award was created in his honor.
Cy Young is the major league player who pitched the most innings, with 7,356 innings, or roughly the equivalent of 150 full baseball games, more than any other pitcher in history. Young’s baseball career spanned from 1890 to 1911, and no major league player since then has surpassed his record as of 2015. He won a total of 511 games during his baseball career, most of any pitcher in history. Young also set the record for most games completed, at 749. On May 5, 1904, he became the first pitcher to throw a perfect game in American League history when the Boston Red Sox beat the Philadelphia Athletics.
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Cy Young’s real name was Denton True Young: his nickname Cy was short for “Cyclone” due to the speed of his fastball field.
For 83 years, Young held the record for oldest pitcher to throw a no-hitter, at 41 in 1908, and it wasn’t broken until 1991 by 44-year-old Nolan Ryan.
The Cy Young Award was created in 1956, one year after Young’s death, to recognize the best pitcher in the American League and National League.
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