The man for whom the premier pitching award is named - Cy Young - signed this official American League (Harridge) baseball that dates to the early 1950s and boasts a fine example of the Hall of Famer's hand. The ball has been shellacked to preserve the signature, and it is toned to a light yellow because of the coating. The signature on a side panel in black ink rates 7.5/10. Young was the gold standard of pitchers, racking up a record 511 wins (94 more than #2 Walter Johnson) while playing for 22 years. More than a century after his retirement, Cy still holds the major league records of most career innings pitched (7,356), most career games started (815) and most complete games (749). He also suffered 316 losses, the most in MLB history, for fair measure.