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Article: Zito edges Martinez for AL Cy Young Award
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- AP Worldstream
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- November 8, 2002
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Dateline: NEW YORK
Now Barry Zito can stare at a Cy Young Award every day.
After winning the American League honor for the first time Thursday,
he thought back to his youth, when his parents paid former major
leaguer Randy Jones $50 a lesson and he went to his teacher's house
after workouts.
"It was sitting there is his living room every day," Zito said, "and
I would kind of marvel at it."
Zito, 23-5 with a 2.75 earned run average as Oakland won the AL West,
received 17 first-place votes, nine seconds and two thirds for 114
points from a panel of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Boston's Pedro Martinez, a three-time Cy Young Award ...