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Originally Posted by Fred
Dang, that was a bit too easy...
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Young is a bit of a special case, though, because the award named for him is such a part of baseball to this day. Vezina's only real claim to fame among the public today is that there is an award named for him, and Vezina's award is still not as well known as the Cy Young award is to baseball.
I left Cy Young off the list because I think WaJo and Matty are better indicators of fame, since neither of them have a pitching award named for them that keeps their names in front of the public every year.
If there was no such thing as the Cy Young award, his notoriety would go down sharply among the modern population.
If there was no such thing as the Heisman Trophy, how many people would ever know John Heisman today? The answer to that is just about zero.