Good day all!
On the blog today we take a
look at my custom card for the man, the legend, Cy Young, from my early
"19th Century Base Ball Stars" set released back in 2018, and happy to
say long sold-out:
A truly fun set to conceive
and build back then, really trying to convey a real 19th Century
cigarette pack as packaging for the tobacco-sized cards on matte-stock.
As for Young, what really needs to be stated about the work-horses of all work-horses?!
Over
his 22 year career that began in 1890, the man appeared in 906 games,
with 815 of them starts, completing an astonishing 749 of them, tossing
76 shutouts while saving 18, tossing a mind-numbing 7356 innings and
facing almost 30,000 batters!
His total numbers were amazing:
511 wins against 315 losses, with a 2.63 earned run average and 2803
strikeouts, at the time of his retirement holding all "counting stats"
records.
Six times he'd record an ERA under 2.00, with a low
of 1.26 in 1908 at the age of 41 when he posted a record of 21-11,
completing 30 of 33 starts while tossing three shutouts and striking out
150 batters.
As far as wins, he posted 30+ five times while
topping 20+ an incredible 16 times, with a high of 36 in 1892 while
pitching for the Cleveland Spiders.
Somewhat of the pitching
counterpart to Cap Anson, the man just kept producing year after year
into his 40s, establishing a record and legend that 100+ years of
baseball history couldn't even erase.
