Cy Young

The Baseball Life and Career

Lew Freedman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

205 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7682-1 (ISBN)

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An early celebrity pitcher, Denton "Cy" Young established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that will likely last forever. Among the Hall of Fame's first inductees, he remained a sought-after interviewee decades after retirement.

An early celebrity pitcher, Denton "Cy" Young (1867-1955) established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that will likely last forever.

The winner of 511 games--nearly one hundred more than the second-ranked hurler--Young pitched the first perfect game of the modern era, as well as three no-hitters. His talents helped establish the American League in 1901.

Among the Hall of Fame's first inductees, he remained a sought-after interviewee decades after retirement. A year after his death, the Cy Young Award was dedicated as baseball's most prestigious honor for pitchers.

Lew Freedman is a long-time, prize-winning journalist for such newspapers as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News and Wyoming’s Cody Enterprise. Specializing in sports and the outdoors, he has written more than 100 books. He lives in Columbus, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Perfect

2. Ohio

3. The Majors

4. Back to Cleveland

5. Mowing Them Down

6. Me, Her and the Ball

7. The Sometimes Gay Nineties

8. 1896

9. 1897

10. Cleveland’s Last Gasp

11. St. Louis

12. The American League

13. A Star in Boston

14. Feeling at Home

15. A Championship Club

16. The World Series

17. Another Pennant

18. Middle Age and Middling Play

19. 1907–1908

20. The End of the Line

21. The Farmer Comes Home

22. Grand Tributes

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	14 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	268 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4766-7682-8 / 1476676828
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7682-1 / 9781476676821
Zustand	Neuware