Cy Young Quotes

• I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

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• Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.

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• A pitcher’s got to be good and he’s got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

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• All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

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• In our day, when a pitcher got into trouble in a game, instead of taking him out, our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.

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• One of the fellows called me ‘Cyclone’ but finally shortened it to ‘Cy’ and its been that ever since.

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• Too many pitchers, that’s all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don’t see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch ’em every three days and you’d find they’d get control and good, strong arms.

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Cy Young (7)

Birth:	29th March, 1867
Death:	4th November, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Baseball Player

About

Cy Young was born in Gilmore, Ohio. He was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. During his 21-year baseball career, he pitched for five different teams. Young compiled 511 wins, which is most in Major League history and 94 ahead of Walter Johnson who is second on the list. Young was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.

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