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Celebrating Cy Young
Celebrating Cy Young
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2022
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Cy Young Day, an exhibition game to celebrate the greatest pitcher of all time, was bracketed by days of sports celebration, from prizefighters in the squared circle to old time baseball in the Harbor Islands. Held at the Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds on August 13, 1908, the Cy Young celebration drew a record crowd of 20,000 fans to the now long gone ballpark. By this time, Young had been playing professional baseball for 20 years, and he was starting to slow down. Nobody knew if the old Ohio farmboy would be playing for Boston when the 1909 season rolled around, so it seemed as if the whole city turned out to show the pitcher their love, and to make sure he would have a comfortable nest egg for his expected retirement.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/254/
Support the show: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Jul 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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