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He played Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 to 1983 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox. Jenkins played the majority of his career for the Cubs. He was a National League (NL) and Cubs All-Star for three seasons, and in 1971, he was the first Canadian and Cubs pitcher to win a Cy Young Award .
The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL). The award was introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford C. Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955. The award was originally given to the single best pitcher ...
See: This Year in Baseball Awards § Award winners Note: These awards were renamed the "GIBBY Awards" in 2010 and then the "Esurance MLB Awards" in 2015. Note: Voted by five groups as the best in all of Major League Baseball (i.e., not two awards, one for each league).
The ace finished the 1971 season with 24 wins and won both the AL MVP and AL Cy Young awards. The next year, the A’s won the World Series. In 1973, Blue engineered his second 20-win season as ...
May 15 – Goose Goslin, 70, Hall of Fame left fielder who starred for five pennant winners in Washington and Detroit, batting .316 lifetime with eleven 100-RBI seasons; one of the first ten players to hit 200 home runs, he retired with the 7th-most RBIs in history.
A five-time All-Star, Perry was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991. He won the Cy Young award with Cleveland in 1972 and with San Diego in 1978, just after turning 40, becoming the first pitcher ...
1.2 Cy Young Award. ... 4.1 Baseball Hall of Fame. 4.2 DHL Hometown Heroes ... These awards are voted on by five groups for all of Major League Baseball (i.e., not ...
Simmons was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame for the Class of 2020, Vuckovich won the 1982 Cy Young and Fingers, another Hall of Famer, swept the Cy Young and MVP awards in 1981.