Talk:Cy Young

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Clean up of the article in its existing form. Expand on his playing career. He's one of baseball's greatest! He deserves to have a longer article. Add section about the Death and Legacy. --Nishkid64 00:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

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There is a lot of research going on at the moment that tends to show that the Boston Americans were never actually called the "Pilgrims" at the time -- that it was a name that baseball writers later stuck onto the team's history. I belong to the Sabremetric baseball research group and will research this issue a little, then, if necessary, make any changes. Hayford Peirce 03:32, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

• I've eliminated the Pilgrims reference -- here's a link to a major article about that nickname....

• http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/boston_pilgrims_story.shtml - article refuting Pilgrims nickname

Interesting fact- Mr. Young also holds the record for losingest pitcher. --cuiusquemodi 04:18, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

• I changed "threw out the first pitch of the first W.S. game" to "Young pitched in the first game of the first World Series." The phrase "threw out the first pitch" is usually associated with the ceremonial first pitch that is usually thrown by presidents or former players. Since he did more than just throw the first pitch, I changed it to that he pitched in the first game.

[edit] Hitting

Accord to my early research, Young holds a lot of hitting records. I've searched the MLB.com stats database for players who have pitched 5000 innings or more and he's the leader in ABs, hits, RBI, runs and total bases.

Cy Young's profile on MLB.com

I can't say it officially though - but there are only two pitchers close to him in at bats; Pud Galvin and Walter Johnson. There's also no record of how many at bats he got as a position player, and it's debatable whether than even matters. If a guy get's 98% of his at bats as a pitcher, that's surely enough? Mglovesfun 17:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)