» November 1, 1892: Averages for the first 154-game season show that Dan Brouthers of Brooklyn was the top hitter at .335, and Cy Young the top pitcher with 36 wins and 11 losses.

» May 21, 1896: Cy Young gets Cleveland's 8th consecutive win with a 4–1 decision over Boston. The streak has helped the Spiders to solidify their hold on first place.

» August 20, 1900: In the Reds 15–7 pasting of St. Louis, Cy Young is knocked out of the box for the 2nd consecutive game. This is a first in his career. Young will finish 32 of his 35 starts in compiling a 19–19 record.

» May 8, 1901: In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia's Bill Bernhard, 12-4, behind Cy Young, who has jumped from the St. Louis NL team. Boston is led by Buck Freeman, who has a single, triple and homer. Young complains that he does not like the rule against pitchers warming up but he will still lead the AL with his 1.62 ERA. His 33 wins are 41.8 percent of his team’s 79 victories, a post-1900 record, it will stand until Steve Carlton wins 45.8 percent of the Phils’ 59 wins in 1972. Young also complains about catchers. "I do not like the league rule compelling the catcher to stand behind the bat all the time. It handicaps a pitcher. I cannot extend myself as I would like."

» June 17, 1901: Bosox sweep a Bunker Hill day double-header, 11-1 and 10-4, part of five game sweep over the White Sox. The Sox relinquish 1st place to Boston. Buck Freeman has a homer and triple in the two games to back Mitchell and Cy Young.

» July 12, 1901: Boston Somersets' Cy Young scatters seven hits in beating the Athletics, 5-3, for his 300th victory.

» July 16, 1901: In Cleveland, Boston's Cy Young notches his 12th straight win, staggering to a 10-8 victory over the Blues. Buck Freeman has three hits including a triple off losing pitcher Moore.

» August 2, 1901: The Pilgrims coast to a 16-0 win over the A's behind the pitching of Cy Young. It is Cy's 20th win of the year versus five losses.

» August 20, 1901: At Boston, Cy Young pitches a 6-0 shutout over visiting Milwaukee. Boston (59-40) is a game behind the White Sox (60-39), but will lose 12 out of their next 17 to drop out of contention.

» August 27, 1901: At Boston, Cy Young goes 15 innings to defeat Detroit, 2-1, for his 25th win of the year.

» September 8, 1901: In a rare Sunday game (Sunday games are not outlawed in Chicago) before an estimated 20,000 fans, the largest AL crowd of the year, White Sox OF Dummy Hoy laces a 2-run single in the bottom of the 9th off Boston's Cy Young to give Chicago a 4-3 win.

» September 14, 1901: Boston's Cy Young records his 30th win of the year, beating the visiting Washington Nationals, 12-1.

» September 25, 1901: At Boston, Cy Young wins his 33rd, beating the White Stockings, 5-2. Nixey Callahan takes the loss.

» April 19, 1902: At Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds, 15,000 watch Boston defeat Baltimore, 7-6, in the AL Opening Day game. Cy Young is the winner.

» May 2, 1902: At Boston, the Orioles tag Cy Young for six runs in the first inning and the ace is lifted. Baltimore scores another eight runs off reliever George Prentiss (who pitched as George Wilson last year) to win 14-6. Baltimore likes Prentiss so much they will purchase him in June.

» June 8, 1902: At St. Louis, the Pilgrims' Cy Young (13-1) wins 7-1 for his 10th win in a row.

» July 8, 1902: A rough outing as Boston righthander Doc Adkins faces 16 batters and gives up 12 hits and 12 runs in the 6th inning of a Philadelphia A's 22–9 win over the Somersets. Five players—Hartsel, Davis, Lave Cross, Seybold, and Murphy—collect two hits apiece in the frame. The A's new 2B Danny Murphy does not arrive until the 2nd inning and takes the field with no batting practice: he is 6-for-6, including a grand slam off Cy Young, while handling 12 chances flawlessly in a sensational debut. Teammate Harry Davis adds another grand slam to tie the major-league record for a game. The 45 hits —27 by the A's—by the two teams sets an American League record. Rube Waddell picks up the win, facing just three batters in relief, while singling in the big inning.

» August 7, 1902: For the 2nd time this year, Boston's Cy Young gives up six runs in the first inning and is lifted. This times the Browns bomb him enroute to a 12-4 victory in St. Louis. Young will complete 41 of 43 starts this year.

» August 10, 1902: At Chicago, Boston tops the White Sox 5-4 in 11 innings as Cy Young records his 25th win.

» August 31, 1902: In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, a Sunday crowd of 3,500 watch a matchup of Cleveland's Addie Joss and Boston's Cy Young. Boston pushes over two runs in the 11th to win, 3-1.

» September 6, 1902: Boston defeats St. Louis 6-5 as Cy Young wins his 30th of the year.

» September 23, 1902: Cy Young eases to his 32nd win as Boston pounds the A's, 14-1.

» April 20, 1903: Since yesterday was Sunday, today is both Opening Day and Patriot's Day in Boston. The Pilgrims play an a.m. game before 8,376 fans beating the A's Rube Waddell, 9–4. The Athletics take the afternoon contest, 10–7, watched by 27,658, behind Eddie Plank and Chief Bender. Cy Young and Long Tom Hughes pitch for Boston.

» June 28, 1903: At St. Louis, Cy Young shuts out the Browns in the opener, 1-0, pinning a tough loss on Red Donahue. Pilgrim righty Long Tom Hughes follows with a 3-0 win over in the nitecap. Jack Powell takes the loss.

» July 1, 1903: Pitcher Cy Young drives home the only run in the 10th inning as the Pilgrims beat Chicago, 1-0.

» July 15, 1903: With ground rules limiting hits into the crowds to three bases, Cy Young drives home Lou Criger in the 10th inning for a 4-3 win over visiting Cleveland. Addie Joss takes the loss.

» July 23, 1903: In a doubleheader with New York, Cy Young wins the opener, 6-1, in a match that takes one hour: 35 minutes. New York wins the nitecap, 4-2.

» July 29, 1903: Cy Young goes all the way as Boston loses to the Highlanders, 15-14. The New Yorkers had been shut out in their two previous matches in the series. Patsy Dougherty leads the Boston offense by hitting for the cycle, but Cy gets little defense as Boston makes eight errors behind him. New York starter Jack Chesbro is lifted in the 6th for Harry Howell, while Willie Keeler has four hits to lead the Highlander offense. The game lasts two hours: 10 minutes.

» August 10, 1903: At Boston's Huntington Grounds, Cy Young tosses no-hit ball for seven innings, and beats the A's, 7-2.

» August 14, 1903: In Detroit, Cy Young picks up his 20th win as Boston wins, 6-3.

» August 21, 1903: Ducky Holmes, White Stockings OF, has four assists in a game, tying the ML record. But his team still loses 11-3 to Cy Young and the Boston Pilgrims.

» September 3, 1903: Boston (AL) beats the A's, 6-5, in 12 innings as Cy Young earns his 25th win of the year.

» October 1, 1903: The first modern World Series game, also called "Championship of the United States," is played at Boston's Huntington Street park before 16,242. Deacon Phillippe pitches Pittsburgh to a 7–3 win over Cy Young. Pittsburgh RF Jimmy Sebring hits the first home run and adds three other hits. 3B Tommy Leach has four hits, including two triples for the Pirates and winds up with four three-baggers, a Series record.

» October 7, 1903: Cy Young, who will also pitch in four games, stops the Pirates 11–2 on six hits. The 36-year-old righthander drives in three runs. Pittsburgh's Brickyard Kennedy, pitching on his 35th birthday, is ahead 4–2 in the 6th when Honus Wagner makes two errors, and Boston scores six runs. After giving up another four runs in the 7th, Kennedy is gone, and will not pitch in the majors again. Patsy Dougherty has a single a two triples, while Chick Stahl and Jimmy Collins add three baggers.

» October 10, 1903: Three days rest are apparently too much for Phillippe, who gives up first-inning triples to Boston's Jimmy Collins and Chick Stahl for a 2–0 lead. Five of the first 11 hits are triples, as the ground rules call for any balls hit into the crowds to be three baggers. Cy Young wins 7–3.

» April 14, 1904: At chilly Hilltop Park, each spectator is given a small American flag as he enters the park for the Highlanders-Boston game. Ex-Judge Olcott tosses out the first ball and then Jack Chesbro pitches and bats New York to an 8-2 victory. He scatters six hits and scores two runs on two hits, including a homer. Both Boston runs come on inside the park homers, by Buck Freeman in the 7th, and in the 9th by Freddie Parent. New York scores five in the first inning off Cy Young to put the game away.

» April 25, 1904: In Philadelphia, Boston's Cy Young pitches eight innings and allows six hits in losing to the A's Rube Waddell, 2-0. Young allows no-hits in the last six outs, the start of a record 25 1/3 hitless inning skein.

» April 30, 1904: With the score 3-1 in favor of Boston over Washington, Cy Young relieves starter George Winter with no outs in the 3rd after Winters gives up three hits in the frame. Young then tosses seven full innings of hitless ball as Boston wins, 4-1. Young has now thrown nine straight innings without a hit.

» May 2, 1904: At Huntington Grounds, the A's Rube Waddell stops Boston on one hit, a spoiler by Patsy Dougherty in beating Jesse Tannehill, 3-0. Rube taunts Cy Young to face him and suffer the same fate, and the two aces will square off on the 5th.

» May 5, 1904: Boston Pilgrim Cy Young pitches the 2nd of three no-hitters, a 3-0 perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics and Rube Waddell. After Waddell flied out for the final out, Young yells at him, "How do you like that, you hayseed!" For Waddell it is one of his 18 losses this year, the most of his career, against 25 wins. He will strike out 349, a record until Sandy Koufax fans 382 in 1965. Today, he strikes out six while allowing 10 hits. Young stretches his hitless inning skein to 18.

» May 11, 1904: Against Detroit, Cy Young pitches no-hit ball until the 7th inning, when Sam Crawford hits a one-out single to break his consecutive streak of no hit innings at 24 1/3 (76 batters without a hit) still the record (for years, the record book had Young at 23 1/3 innings arguing his relief of Winters occurred with men on base). Young and Tiger starter Ed Killian battle for 15 innings before Boston finally scores a run to win 1-0. Young will throw 45 shutout innings in a row, a record broken by Don Drysdale's 58 in 1968.

» June 25, 1904: In Boston, the Highlanders Jack Chesbro wins his 12th straight, besting Cy Young, 5-3. Patsy Dougherty has three hits against his former teammates.

» September 10, 1904: The A's Eddie Plank and Boston's Cy Young face each other, with the Athletics prevailing, 1-0, in 13 innings.

» September 17, 1904: More than 23,000, reputedly the largest crowd in Boston history, show up for the showdown twinbill with the New York Highlanders. New York scores three runs in each of the first two innings against Bill Dineen. Jack Chesbro (35-8) holds on for a 6-4 win, his 7th win in a row. New York briefly takes over 1st place. But Cy Young tops New York, 4-2, in the nitecap, beating Ned Garvin, recently acquired from Brooklyn. The two teams complete their three doubleheaders at 2-2-2.

» July 4, 1905: In an a.m.-p.m, doubleheader between Boston and Philadelphia, the A's take the morning game 5-2, using pitchers Eddie Plank, Andy Coakley and Rube Waddell on the mound to beat Jesse Tannehill. The afternoon contest proves a classic as Philadelphia's Rube Waddell bests Cy Young in a 20-inning marathon, when the Athletics prevail, 4-2. Boston outhits the A's, 15 to 13, but the 38-year-old Young loses on an error, hit batsman and two hits. Young walks nobody in the 20 innings, while 1B Bob Unglaub records 31 putouts. Philadelphia C Ossee Schreckengost works 28 innings in one day, a ML record.

» July 24, 1905: Cleveland and Boston play their 2nd straight game in Columbus, Ohio. Boston won yesterday, 6-1, behind Cy Young, and today the Pilgrims win again, 7-1. Bill Dinneen is victorious over Detroit workhorse George Mullin. Boston 2B Hobe Ferris was 3-for-4 yesterday, and today chips in with a homer.

» August 4, 1905: At Boston, Harvard Eddie Grant makes his ML debut, collecting three hits for Cleveland. But Boston wins, 7–5. Grant will go hitless tomorrow in an 8–4 loss to Cy Young, and be sent down to the minors. He'll resurface with the Phillies in 1907.

» April 14, 1906: At Hilltop Park, former player John Montgomery Ward throws out the first ball before the start of the Highlanders-Pilgrims opener. Veterans Jack Chesbro and Cy Young struggle to a 1-1 standoff through eleven innings before New York pushes across an unearned run in the 12th.

» March 28, 1907: Popular Boston Pilgrims OF Chick Stahl, who replaced Jimmy Collins as manager of the now named Red Sox at the end of the 1906 season, commits suicide while travelling with the team in West Baden Springs, IN. After breakfast he returned to his room and drank four oz. of carbolic acid. He left a note: "Boys, I just couldn't help it. You drove me to it." Cy Young reluctantly agrees to start the season as Boston's manager, but there will be three others during the year.

» April 11, 1907: At Philadelphia, Cy Young leaves in the 9th inning for a pinch hitter with Boston ahead 4-3. Lee Tannehill relieves, gives up a tying run in the 9th, but shuts outs the A's for another five innings before Boston scores four in the 14th to win. The write up of the game gives the victory to Young, stating that Tannehill didn't pitch well enough to win.

» April 17, 1907: The Doves hire George Huff as manager, replacing player-manager Cy Young. The team was 3-3 under Cy. Huff will last two weeks before Bob Unglaub takes over.

» June 14, 1907: At Boston, the Browns knock Cy Young for three runs in the first and George Winter comes in for the last eight innings. The Sox rally for four runs to win 4-3.

» August 28, 1907: Highlander pitcher John "Tacks" Neuer, begins baseball's most successful short career by besting the Red Sox 1-0 in his first start, the nitecap of a DH. In one month he will pitch six complete games, win 4, including three shutouts, and then disappear from the ML scene. In the first game, Boston's Cy Young wins his 20th game, defeating the Highlanders, 5-3.

» September 9, 1907: Boston's Cy Young and the A's Rube Waddell battle to a 13 inning scoreless tie. Neither pitcher walks a batter.

» May 30, 1908: Washington 1B Jerry Freeman's single is the only hit allowed by Boston's Cy Young. Harry Lord has four hits to back Cy's pitching.

» June 30, 1908: Cy Young's 3rd career no-hitter is an 8-0 Boston win over New York. Cy almost duplicates his perfect game of 1904, walking just one batter-leadoff hitter Harry Niles. Niles is then caught stealing and the next 27 batters make out. Cy also tallies three hits and drives in half the Pilgrim's runs off Rube Manning. At 41 years and three months, he is the oldest pitcher to turn the no-hit trick. Nolan Ryan will beat him in 1990 at the age of 43.

» August 13, 1908: Cy Young Day is celebrated by 20,000 in Boston. He pitches briefly against an All-Star team that includes Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Harry Davis, and George Mullin. The game is interrupted several times for presentations to the great hurler, including a great loving cup from the AL for all his accomplishments.

» September 8, 1908: Boston's Cy Young defeats Washington, 3-1 for his 20th win.

» 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.

» May 13, 1909: The Red Sox jump on former teammate Cy Young for 17 hits-4 by Harry Hooper-in an 8-1 win over Cleveland. Cleveland 3B Bill Bradley makes seven putouts, tying his own team mark set in 1901.

» July 19, 1909: Cleveland SS Neal Ball executes the 20th century's first unassisted triple play in the top of the 2nd against the Red Sox. With Heinie Wagner on 2B and Jake Stahl on 1B, Amby McConnell hits a line drive to Ball, who steps on 2B and tags Stahl coming down from 1B. In the last of the 2nd, Ball hits his first American League homer, an inside-the-park shot, adds a double. Cleveland wins 6–1 behind Cy Young, but Boston wins the nitecap, 3–2.

» May 4, 1910: President Taft takes in two games starting with the Reds and the Cardinals at Robison Field in St. Louis. The Cards score five in the 1st as Reds pitchers Fred Beebe, Walt Slagle (in his only ML appearance) and Harry Coveleski will eventually walk a record 16 in the 12–3 loss. The Cards walk seven to total a record 23. Taft doesn't stick around. He leaves for Sportsman's Park in hopes of seeing some good baseball and is rewarded by a 3–3, 14-inning battle between the Browns' Joe Lake and the Naps' Cy Young that ends in darkness. There will be a record 19 ties in the AL this year.

» July 19, 1910: Cy Young, 43, wins his 500th game 5-4, over Washington in 11 innings.

» July 24, 1911: An AL all-star team plays the Naps in Cleveland, raising $12,914 for the late Addie Joss's family. The all-stars win 5–3. Joe Wood and Walter Johnson pitch for the all stars, while Cy Young twirls for the Naps.

» July 29, 1911: In his last appearance for Cleveland, Cy Young pitches just three innings and gives up five runs in a 7–1 loss to Washington. After this game, Cleveland will waive the veteran (3–4) to the Boston Rustlers (NL).

» August 15, 1911: Cy Young, 3–4 at Cleveland, is given his release. He returns to Boston and signs with the NL Rustlers, where he will close out the year 4–5, and his pitching days with a 511–315 record, 750 complete games, 7,356 IP.

» August 26, 1911: Now pitching for the NL Rustlers, Cy Young delights the hometown Boston fans by pitching a complete game against the Cardinals, winning, 5–4.

» September 7, 1911: Grover Alexander (24 years old), winning a rookie record 28 games, pitches the Phils to a 1–0 win over Boston's 44-year-old Cy Young. Alex gives up just one hit. Alexander's 31 CG, 367 IP, and seven shutouts lead the NL. The AL has its own rookie sensation, lefty Vean Gregg, who breaks in for Cleveland with a 23–7 record and miserly 1.81 ERA. Gregg will win 20 his first three years, then win just 28 in the next 12 years.

» September 12, 1911: In the nitecap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9–0 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York's scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 11–2. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on 1B in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a DP (8-4-1-3). New York wins the 1st game, 9–3, and now lead the Cubs by two games.

» September 22, 1911: Boston Rustlers Cy Young shuts out Pittsburgh and Babe Adams 1–0 for his final career victory, number 511. It is Young's 2nd shutout against the Pirates, who lost just three of 22 games to Boston in 1911.

» October 6, 1911: Cy Young's farewell appearance in a ML game is a letdown, as he loses to Brooklyn's Eddie Dent, 13–3, in his 906th game.

» May 6, 1913: Better organized and financed than other aspiring circuits, the Federal League opens modestly and quietly, with clubs in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Covington, KY. No attempt is made to sign established ML players. Cy Young manages Cleveland, Deacon Phillippe manages Pittsburgh. After a 6-week season, the pennant winner is Indianapolis.

» July 29, 1921: As part of Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration, Cy Young, 54, makes a two-inning appearance on the mound in an old-timers' game. Chief Zimmer, 60, is his catcher.

» September 5, 1921: Walter Johnson breaks Cy Young's career strikeout mark by fanning seven Yankees to run his total to 2,287.

» September 20, 1925: In Cleveland, the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland old-timers play a 6–6, 8-inning tie. The lineups include Three Finger Brown, Jimmy Archer Artie Hofman, Mort Scanlan and Dutch Meier for Chicago; For Cleveland, Larry Nap Lajoie, Dode Paskert, Chief Zimmer, Cy Berger, Cy Young, and Joe Delahanty. The game benefits the Amateur and Old-timer's Baseball Association of Cleveland: "This association employs a doctor to look after the injuries of any boy hurt in baseball in that district." Before boarding the train for Cleveland, Brown throws batting practice for the Cubs at Chicago.

» January 19, 1937: Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker, and Cy Young are voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the BBWAA.

» June 19, 1938: After walking the leadoff hitter, Elbie Fletcher, on four pitches, the Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2/3 (including the final out in the game before Vandy's 1st no-hitter) before Debs Garms singles for Boston in the 4th. Vandy coasts home, 14–1, allowing three hits. Vandy falls short of the record of 23 scoreless innings set by Cy Young in 1908. Young is one of 34,511, on hand for today's game at Brave's Field.

» June 12, 1939: The greatest gathering of members and future inductees of the Baseball Hall of Fame assembles in Cooperstown, NY, for the dedication of the museum. A six-inning game at Doubleday Field presents lineups studded with players who will be elected in the future, as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, and Connie Mack accept their plaques.

» May 20, 1944: Mel Harder of the Indians and Paul Derringer of the Cubs both win their 201st career games. Derringer's win comes at home, 3–2 over Boston's Nate Andrews. At Philadelphia, Harder wins his, 5–0, allowing three hits and finishing in one hour: 37 minutes. Cy Young is on hand to watch the game.

» May 15, 1951: At Fenway Park, the Red Sox celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first American League game in Boston. On hand are 29 old-timers who played, managed, or umpired in the AL in that first year including Connie Mack, Dummy Hoy, Cy Young, Hugh Duffy, Clark Griffith, Tom Connolly, Billy Sullivan, Wid Conroy, Bill Bradley, and Ollie Pickering. Eight of the 29 participated in the first AL game, played in Chicago on April 24, 1901.

» July 1, 1951: Veteran Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career, tying the record of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, as he beats Detroit’s Bob Cain 2–1. Feller loses his shutout in the fourth when Johnny Lipon reaches on an error, swipes 2B, goes to 3B on a errant pickoff, and scores on a fly. Rookie Bob Chakales shuts out the Tigers in the nightcap, 2–0, for Cleveland’s 10th straight win over Detroit. Detroit has scored eight runs in the ten losses.

» April 28, 1961: Five days past his 40th birthday, Warren Spahn becomes the 2nd-oldest ML pitcher (after Cy Young) to hurl a no-hitter, blanking San Francisco 1–0. Hank Aaron drives in the only run off loser Sam Jones, who strikes out 10. It is Spahn's 290th win and 52nd shutout. Spahn faces just 27 men, following each walk by starting a DP.

» December 13, 1966: The Giants trade P Bob Priddy and OF Cap Peterson to the Senators for P Mike McCormick. McCormick will win the Cy Young in 1967.

» April 14, 1968: Jim Bunning's first win with Pittsburgh, 3–0 at Los Angeles, is his 40th career shutout and includes his 1,000th National League strikeout, making him the first pitcher since Cy Young with 1,000 in each league.

» July 24, 1968: Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th game breaks Cy Young's record for ML pitching appearances, but he loses a 2–1 decision to Oakland.

» August 11, 1970: Jim Bunning notches his 100th National League victory, a 6–5 Phillies win over the Astros. Bunning is the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in each league.

» November 28, 1971: In a blockbuster interstate trade good for both teams, the Dodgers send Frank Robinson, Bill Singer, Mike Strahler, Bobby Valentine and Bill Grabarkewitz to the Angels in exchange for Andy Messersmith, and Ken McMullen, who returns to the team that signed him. The 37-year-old Robinson will play 147 games, hitting 30 homers and driving in 97 runs in '73, and Singer will combine with Nolan Ryan in 1973 to strike out 674 batters, a 20th Century major-league record for two teammates. Messersmith will win 39 games in the next two seasons for the Dodgers and finish 2nd in the Cy Young voting in 1974.

» October 31, 1972: Gaylord Perry wins the AL Cy Young award by a 64-58 margin over Chicago's Wilbur Wood. Perry won 24 games for the 5th-place Indians.

» November 14, 1973: Reggie Jackson wins the AL MVP Award unanimously. The Oakland star led the league in runs (99), home runs (32), RBI (117), and slugging (.531). Jim Palmer is named the AL Cy Young winner.

» June 6, 1975: Luis Tiant wins his 100th game as a Red Sox, defeating Kansas City, 1–0. Boston's other 100+ winners include Cy Young (193), Mel Parnell (123), Joe Wood (112), Joe Dobson (106), and Lefty Grove (105) (Roger Clemens will join the group with 192). Carl Yastrzemski walks in the game, his 1,452nd, tying him for 10th on the all time list with Jimmie Foxx.

» April 5, 1979: At Yankee Stadium, 52,719 see Milwaukee jump on Ron Guidry for four runs in the 6th inning and beat New York 5–1. It's the most runs the Cy Young winner has allowed since 1977. The Yanks get singles from their first three hitters, but manage to score just one run in the first off Mike Caldwell.

» October 26, 1982: Steve Carlton wins the National League Cy Young Award for the 4th time, a record unmatched by any pitcher. The Phils 37-year-old lefthander, who led the NL in wins (23), innings (2952/3), strikeouts (286), and shutouts (6), was a previous winner in 1972, 1977, and 1980. He joins Walter Johnson and Willie Mays as the only players to be voted MVP or Cy Young winner 10 or more years apart.

» December 11, 1991: In a blockbuster trade, the Mets obtain two-time Cy Young winner Bret Saberhagen along with SS Bill Pecota from the Royals in exchange for Kevin McReynolds, Gregg Jefferies, and Keith Miller.

» September 28, 1993: After three unsuccessful attempts, Dennis Martinez of the Expos picks up his 100th National League victory, defeating the Marlins, 3-2. He becomes the 7th pitcher in history to win 100 games in each league, joining Cy Young, Nolan Ryan, Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins, Jim Bunning. and Al Orth.

» October 2, 1995: In a one-game playoff, Randy Johnson pitches the Mariners to a 9-1 win over the Angels. The Cy Young winner-to be strikes out 12 and allows just 3 hits as the M's make the post season for the first time in 19 years. Edgar Martinez is 2-for-3 to finish at .356 and win his 2nd batting title. He is the first AL right handed hitter in the last 50 years to win 2 batting titles, though its been done 4 times in the NL (Aaron, Clemente, Davis, Madlock).

» April 12, 1996: Tom Urbanski pitches 5+ strong innings to win his 1st game of the year as the Cards top the Phils, 6–1. Dennis Eckersley, with his appearance in the 9th inning, ties Cy Young (8th place) with 906 appearances. The Cards offense is paced by Ray Lankford with two homers.

» August 17, 1996: Boston's Roger Clemens (6-11) stops the Angels, 6–0, collecting his first shutout since April 20, 1994. It is the Rocket's 37th shutout, leaving him one behind Cy Young for the most in Sox history.

» November 11, 1996: The Cy Young Award stays in Atlanta with the expected announcement of John Smoltz as the 1996 National League winner. Since 1991, five of the six Cy Young winners have been Braves. Smoltz is named first on 26 of 28 ballots, with Kevin Brown finishing second in the voting.

» September 22, 2002: The Braves beat the Marlins, 4–1, as Greg Maddux joins Cy Young as the only pitchers in ML history to win 15 or more games in 15 consecutive seasons.