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Using a puzzling curve and good control, Chech won a career-high 14 games as a rookie with the 1905 Reds. After Chech's best season, 1908 (11-7, 1.74), the Indians traded him with Jack Ryan and $12,500 for 41-year-old Cy Young. Chech's 2.95 ERA in 1909 was the sixth-worst in the AL among pitchers with 100 or more innings. (NLM)

FROM THE BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY » September 25, 1908: The Senators score five runs in the 9th inning off Cleveland righthander Charlie Chech and beat the Naps, 6-1. Former Cleveland owner Frank DeHaas Robison, listening on the telephone to a friend's play-by-play account of the Washington rally collapses with a heart attack. He dies several hours later. » February 18, 1909: The Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, who won 21 games at age 41 last season, to the Cleveland Naps for righty pitchers Charlie Chech and Jack Ryan, and $12,500. Young pitched for Cleveland in the 1890s.