The 1966 season marked the end of the era of one Cy Young Award per year. Appropriately, Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers won his third and final award in what turned out to be his last season. The Sporting News had been dividing its honors by league since 1948. In 1966, Minnesota’s Jim […]

It’s repetitive to say that Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers had a good year in the 1960s. The 1965 season marked the second time in Koufax’s career he claimed the Cy Young Award unanimously as he led the Dodgers to a World Series victory. On the other side of things in the American […]

Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers reigned as the king of major league pitchers from 1963 to 1966 as he won three Cy Young Awards. The only one that Koufax missed during that stretch was in 1964 when Dean Chance of the Los Angeles Angels claimed the honor by leading the American League in […]

A dominating season by Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers left everyone behind in the Cy Young Award balloting in 1963 as he was the first unanimous section for the honor, but the lefty didn’t leave much doubt as to who was the top overall player in the majors as he named also the […]

The balloting for the 1962 Cy Young Award marked the second time in three years that an American League pitcher didn’t receive a vote. In 1960, winner Vern Law of the Pittsburgh Pirates was one of four hurlers to earn a vote, while two years later there would also be four as Don Drysdale of […]

The voting for the 1961 Cy Young Award proved to be a tight race. Whitey Ford of the New York Yankees won by a 9-6 margin over Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves. Frank Lary of the Detroit Tigers received the final two votes. Although Spahn was the top vote getter from the National League, […]

Chuck Estrada played seven years in the major leagues, but it was his first season that was the most special. As a rookie with the Baltimore Orioles in 1960, Estrada led the American League in victories as he posted an 18-11 record. Named to both all-star games that summer, Estrada pitched an inning in the […]

Sam Jones has the distinction of leading the National League in victories one season, while topping the senior circuit in losses in another. Pitching for the San Francisco Giants in 1959, Jones was 21-15 with an ERA of 2.83, while recording four shutouts. All of those numbers led the NL as Jones was named the […]

Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers was the only multiple winner of the Cy Young Award in the first 11 years. If there had been one in each league handed out, Warren Spahn would have been first. In 1957, Spahn’s helped the Milwaukee Braves to a World Series victory as he won the award […]

A Hall of Fame career and a Cy Young Award may not always be on the same resume. Case in point, Jim Bunning. Bunning was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996. Although Bunning has an extensive list of accomplishments from his 17-year career, being a Cy Young Award winner isn’t among […]