Cy Young Award winners

Order by the year each pitcher first won a Cy Young. You place all 59 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Cy Young Award winners
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How the Cy Young Award timeline works

You're ordering Cy Young Award winners by the year each pitcher first won it. A note under each name gives his team and a word about his style or role. One winner begins on the timeline with his year showing. Slot each new card into a gap. A correct pick reveals the year, and a miss sends the pitcher to his real spot at the cost of one of three lives.

Starters make up most of the deck, with a few relievers mixed in. Workhorses, flamethrowers and crafty lefties span the award's whole history, and repeat winners show up only for their first. The team line occasionally hints at a rough era through an old franchise name; otherwise it comes down to remembering when each ace broke through.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 59 cards you might be dealt, with 31 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Don Newcombe Brooklyn Dodgers ace, first-ever Cy Young
  • Bob Turley New York Yankees righty
  • Vernon Law Pittsburgh Pirates workhorse
  • Don Drysdale Los Angeles Dodgers intimidator
  • Dean Chance Los Angeles Angels ace
  • Bob Gibson St. Louis Cardinals fireballer
  • Jim Perry Minnesota Twins righty
  • Steve Carlton Philadelphia Phillies lefty legend
  • Catfish Hunter Oakland Athletics ace
  • Ron Guidry New York Yankees 25-3 season
  • Fernando Valenzuela Los Angeles Dodgers rookie sensation
  • LaMarr Hoyt Chicago White Sox ace
  • Dwight Gooden New York Mets young flamethrower
  • Steve Bedrosian Philadelphia Phillies closer
  • Mark Davis San Diego Padres closer
  • Tom Glavine Atlanta Braves lefty
  • Jack McDowell Chicago White Sox righty
  • Randy Johnson Seattle Mariners Big Unit
  • Pedro Martinez Montreal Expos dominant righty
  • Johan Santana Minnesota Twins lefty
  • Brandon Webb Arizona Diamondbacks sinkerballer
  • Tim Lincecum San Francisco Giants long-haired ace
  • Felix Hernandez Seattle Mariners King Felix
  • David Price Tampa Bay Rays lefty
  • Corey Kluber Cleveland Indians Klubot
  • Rick Porcello Boston Red Sox righty
  • Shane Bieber Cleveland Indians righty
  • Sandy Alcantara Miami Marlins workhorse

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