Irving Melrose Young (July 21, 1877 – January 14, 1935) was a professional

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. He played six seasons in

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from 1905 to 1911 for the Boston Beaneaters/Doves,

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, and

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."Irv Young Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-28. He was sometimes nicknamed "Young Cy" as a nod to his older contemporary

Cy Young Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. Born in Gilmore, Ohio, he worked on his family's farm as a youth before starting his professional baseball career. Young entered t ...

. Young is one of only two pitchers in modern (post–1900) baseball history to win 20 games for a team that lost 100 games, going 20–21 for the 51–103 Beaneaters of 1905. (The other pitcher to do it was

Ned Garver Ned Franklin Garver (December 25, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Browns (1948–1952), the Detroit Tigers (1952–195 ...

for the 1951 St. Louis Browns, who went 20–12).

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* Major League Baseball pitchers Boston Beaneaters players Boston Doves players Pittsburgh Pirates players Chicago White Sox players Sacramento Senators players Seattle Siwashes players Concord Marines players Minneapolis Millers (baseball) players Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players Baseball players from Penobscot County, Maine People from Washington County, Maine People from Brewer, Maine 1877 births 1935 deaths {{US-baseball-pitcher-1870s-stub