Episode 270: "Cy Young"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

An Ohio farm boy who never finished high school, Cy Young went on to win more games than any pitcher in history and become synonymous with pitching excellence. Along the way, he helped establish the American League, threw the first World Series pitch and bridged the gap between 19th and 20th century baseball. Lew Freedman joins us to discuss the remarkable story of the legendary Hall of Famer.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Pellant!
0:09.0	The Giants!
0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Giants!
0:13.0	The Pellet!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready center of you.
0:45.3	Hey everybody, I'm Justin McIre, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:53.7	That's right, folks, you are once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present. Today, author
0:54.9	Lou Friedman returns to the podcast to talk about his new biography of the legendary
0:59.2	Tsai Young. We'll get to that in just a second. But first, some exciting news. I'm happy to
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