Cy Young Glove

Denton True "Cy" Young (1867–1955) appears here in the T206 White Border Glove Showing pose, one of two T206 Young variations — the other being the Bare Hand Showing pose — and a fixture of the Cleveland Naps subset since the photograph dates from his return to Cleveland in 1909. Born March 29, 1867 in Gilmore, Ohio, the right-hander broke in with Cleveland's National League club in 1890, won 511 games across twenty-two seasons, and retired in 1911 with 7,356 innings pitched, 749 complete games, and 76 career shutouts. He won the first modern World Series with the Boston Americans in 1903 and pitched a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 5, 1904. The T206 Glove pose, distributed during 1909–11 by the American Tobacco Company in cigarette packs, captures him at age 42 in his last productive seasons. He died November 4, 1955 in Newcomerstown, Ohio at 88. The pitching award named for him was instituted by Commissioner Ford Frick the next year. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937, in the second class.