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Article: The Cy Young Award: individual or team recognition?(Awards list)
- Article from:
- The Baseball Research Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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The Cy Young Award is Major League Baseball's premier annual recognition of pitching achievement. While only one outstanding pitcher in each league is presented the award, is that honor fundamentally an individual, or a team, recognition?
The Cy Young Memorial Award was established in 1956 by baseball commissioner Ford Frick to honor the best pitcher in major league baseball. The award is named for pitching great and all-time wins leader Denton True "Cy" Young, who had passed away in 1955. The Cy Young Award winners are selected by the Baseball Writers Association of America. During the first n years of the award, from 1956 to 1966, only a single winner was ...