Irv Young

{{Short description|American baseball player (1877–1935)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Irv Young

|image=Young "Cy" Young Irv Young between seasons (LOC).jpg

|caption=Young between seasons, c. 1909

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{birth date|1877|7|21}}

|birth_place=Columbia Falls, Maine, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1935|1|14|1877|7|21}}

|death_place=Brewer, Maine, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 14

|debutyear=1905

|debutteam=Boston Beaneaters

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=August 25

|finalyear=1911

|finalteam=Chicago White Sox

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=63–95

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.11

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=560

|teams=

• Boston Beaneaters/Doves ({{baseball year|1904}}–{{baseball year|1908}})
• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1908}})
• Chicago White Sox ({{baseball year|1910}}–{{baseball year|1911}})

}}

Irving Melrose Young (July 21, 1877 – January 14, 1935) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played six seasons in Major League Baseball from 1905 to 1911 for the Boston Beaneaters/Doves, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago White Sox.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngir01.shtml "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.

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 for the 1951 St. Louis Browns, who went 20–12).{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/sports/baseball/ned-garver-dead-st-louis-browns-pitcher.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-4&action=click&contentCollection=Baseball®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article |title=Ned Garver, 20-Game Winner for the 102-Loss Browns, Dies at 91 |author=Richard Goldstein |date=February 28, 2017 |work=New York Times |accessdate=March 4, 2017}}