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What's exceptional about Cy Young Boston Red Sox 1908 ?


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Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox was the oldest (41 yrs) of all 180 pitchers in 1908.

outdid Sam Leever of the Pittsburgh Pirates (37 yrs), Joe McGinnity of the New York Giants (37 yrs), Stoney McGlynn of the St. Louis Cardinals (36 yrs), and Al Orth of the New York Highlanders (36 yrs), and 175 others, ending with Smoky Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox (19 yrs).



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References

  1. A player's age is calculated by subtracting his birth year from the season year. The raw data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  2. Batting, pitching, fielding, personal, team, and awards data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Cy Young of the 1908 Boston Red Sox threw right-handed, became a manager, was a 20-game winner, played on a losing team, would make it into the Hall of Fame, played in Huntington Avenue Grounds, and was born in Ohio.

  • achievement score (4.9 see References)
  • assists (62)
  • complete games (30)
  • double plays (2)
  • games finished (3)
  • games played (36)
  • games started (33)
  • innings pitched (299.0)
  • putouts (5)
  • saves (2)
  • shutouts (3)
  • strikeouts (150)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (4.5)
  • winning percentage (65.6%)
  • wins (21)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (1.26)
  • earned runs (42)
  • errors (3)
  • hit by pitch (2)
  • hits (230)
  • hits per nine innings (6.9)
  • homers given up (1)
  • homers per nine innings (0)
  • losses (11)
  • runs allowed (68)
  • walks (37)
  • walks per nine innings (1.1)
  • wild pitches (4)
  • age (41 yrs)
  • batters faced (1,143)
  • height (6'2")
  • innings pitched per game (8.3)
  • weight (210 lbs)

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