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Cy Young
Cy Young won five-hundred eleven Major League games while playing with five different clubs during a career that lasted twenty-two years on the mound!
In 1908, three years before his retirement, he published the following rules that a pitcher should follow for a successful career on the mound.
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"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock." - Cy Young
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Rule
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Pitchers like poets are born, not made.
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Cultivate good habits: Let liquor severely alone, fight shy of cigarettes, and be moderate in indulgence of tobacco, coffee, and tea... A player should try to get along without any stimulants at all: Water, pure cool water is good enough for any man.
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A man who is not willing to work from dewy morn until weary eve should not think about becoming a pitcher.
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Learn to be patient and cool. These traits can be cultivated.
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Take the slumps that come your way, ride over them, and look forward.
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Until you can put the ball over the pan whenever you choose, you have not acquired the command necessary to make a first-class pitcher. Therefore, start in to acquire command.
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Cy Young's Rules for Pitching Success
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