NNO Cy Young

Denton True "Cy" Young (1867–1955) is featured here in the E101 Anonymous Set of 50, the unbranded caramel issue distributed around 1910 whose blank fronts force collectors to identify subjects by image alone. Young earned his nickname — short for "Cyclone" — as a young pitcher whose warmup throws splintered the wooden backstop boards of the era. He broke in with Cleveland of the National League in 1890, won 511 games across an unmatched twenty-two-year career, and retired in 1911 with 749 complete games and 76 shutouts. With the Boston Americans from 1901 through 1908 he won the inaugural modern World Series in 1903 and threw a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics on May 5, 1904. The E101 image is shared with several contemporary candy and tobacco issues, a function of how the source photographs were licensed. He died November 4, 1955 in Newcomerstown, Ohio at 88. The pitching award was named for him the following year. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1937 in the second class.