CY YOUNG·1908

Peak SkillScore summer in a Boston cloth — twenty-one wins, a 1.26 ERA, thirty complete games. The Cyclone did not need a new nickname; he needed the next strike. Three shutouts, a WHIP under ninety hundredths, and an arm that still looked bored while the American League looked late. The cartoons chase the cool glass and the late-career throttle.

1.26 E.R.A.

In 1908, Cy posted a 1.26 E.R.A. — cool glass on a peak SkillScore summer.

THE CYCLONE

They called him the Cyclone — and the American League felt the weather.

21 WINS

In 1908 he won 21 games for Boston — thirty complete games in the book.

Cy Young, Boston Americans. Bain Collection / Library of Congress (ppmsca.18460) via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (US).