Do You Know Baseball Awards?

Many different awards are given in professional baseball. The Major League Baseball Association (MLB) has 30 different teams, with 15 in the American League and 15 in the National League. The award that players probably want most to win is the Most Valuable Player (MVP). However, there are two other awards that are also a great honor.

The Cy Young Award is given to the best pitcher from each MLB league. Cy Young was one of the best pitchers of all time. Pitching for five different teams, he played for 22 seasons. Some of the records Cy set after retiring over 100 years ago in 1912 still stand! For example, he holds the record for most innings pitched (7,356), most games started (815), and the most completed games (749). When he retired, he also held the record for the most games lost (315). It’s hard to believe…