Irving Melrose "Young Cy" Young (July 21, 1877 – January 14, 1935) was a

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. He played six seasons in

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from 1905 to 1911 for the Boston Beaneaters/Doves,

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, and

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."Irv Young Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-28. Young is one of only two pitchers in modern (post–1900) baseball history to win 20 games for a team that lost 100 games, going 20–21 for the 51–103 Beaneaters of 1905. (The other pitcher to do it was

Ned Garver Ned Franklin Garver (December 25, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Browns (1948–1952), the Detroit Tigers (1952–1956), the Kansas City Athle ...

for the 1951 St. Louis Browns, who went 20-12).

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* Major League Baseball pitchers Boston Beaneaters players Boston Doves players Pittsburgh Pirates players Chicago White Sox players Sacramento Senators players Seattle Siwashes players Concord Marines players Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Baseball players from Maine People from Washington County, Maine People from Brewer, Maine 1877 births 1935 deaths {{US-baseball-pitcher-1870s-stub