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Slightly O/T: Did Cy Young "Only" Win 510 Games?
While looking up some info for a player on the 1890 Pittsburgh Alleghenys, I ran across this very interesting note from the president of the Pittsburgh club. The Alleghenys played the Cleveland Spiders on September 18, 1890 in Canton, Ohio. The Spiders won and the winning pitcher was a rookie named Cy Young...
Here's the interesting part. The club president claimed that it was just an exhibition game in an 1890 issue of the Sporting Life two weeks later. Clubs played in-season exhibition games all of the time back then AND the Alleghenys played a game two days later in Wheeling, WV which he doesn't say anything about being an exhibition game. You would think the club president would know if a game was an exhibition or not, but here he is in black and white claiming that one of Cy Young's career wins shouldn't be counted on his record.
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