Cy Young Cleveland

Denton True "Cy" Young (1867–1955) appears here on E254 Colgan's Chips in his Cleveland uniform, picturing him with the franchise where he both began and finished his career. The Colgan's Chips issue was distributed inside packs of chewing gum from 1909 through 1912 in two main runs — the round, black-and-white "Chips" cards — and is one of the more accessible deadball-era issues for a marquee subject. Young broke in with Cleveland's National League club in 1890, jumped to St. Louis when the Cleveland team folded in 1899, then rode the new American League to Boston in 1901 where he won three twenty-game seasons in his first three years. Cleveland reacquired him in 1909 at age 42, and he pitched there through 1911 before a final partial season with Boston of the National League. He retired with 511 wins, 7,356 innings, and 749 complete games — every one of those marks unapproached since. He died November 4, 1955 in Newcomerstown, Ohio. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937, in the second class.