Article: Zito edges Martinez for AL Cy Young Award

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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 ...

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