Cy Young trivia
Cy Young Mini Quiz
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Question 1
Major League Baseball presents the annual Cy Young Award to recognize what specific accomplishment?
Introduced in 1956, shortly after Young's death, the award originally honored a single pitcher across all of MLB before expanding to one per league in 1967.
Question 2
Pitching legend Cy Young holds the MLB record for most career wins, but he also holds the all-time record for what?
Young accumulated 316 career losses simply because he pitched so frequently over 22 seasons, starting an incredible 815 games and completing 749 of them.
Question 3
Hall of Famer Denton True Young earned his nickname "Cy" because his fastball reminded observers of what?
During an early tryout, Young threw his fastball so hard that it splintered the wooden grandstands, prompting observers to say a cyclone had struck the fences.
Question 4
Pitching pioneer Cy Young threw the very first pitch in the history of what modern baseball event?
Playing for the Boston Americans in 1903, Young threw the inaugural pitch of the very first modern World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.