He was the winner of 511 major league baseball games,  nearly a hundred more than any other pitcher. He threw three  no-hitters, including the first perfect game in the new American  League. He was among the original twelve players inducted into  baseball's Hall of Fame, and his name is now attached to the game's  most prestigious pitching award. Yet for all his accomplishments, Cy  Young remains to most baseball fans a legendary but little known  figure.    In this book, Reed Browning re-creates the life of Denton True  "Cyclone" Young and places his story in the context of a rapidly  changing turn-of-the-century America. Born in rural Ohio, the son of a  Civil War veteran, Young learned his trade at a time when only  underhand pitching was permitted. When he began his professional  career in 1890, pitchers wore no gloves and stood five feet closer to  the batter than they do today. By the time he retired in 1911, the  game of baseball had evolved into its modern form and claimed  unquestioned status as America's "national pastime."    As Browning shows, Young's extraordinary mastery of his craft owed  much to his ability to adapt to the changing nature of the  game. Endowed with an exceptional fastball, he gradually developed a  wide array of deliveries and pitches-all of which he could throw with  astonishing control. Yet his success can also be attributed, at least  in part, to the rustic values of loyalty, hard work, and fair play  that he embraced and embodied, and for which he became renowned among  baseball fans of his day.

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