Cy Young Tombstone Analysis

Denton "Cy" Young lived from 1867-1955 and played professional baseball for five different teams throughout his career. He is arguably the best pitcher ever to play the game of baseball, being the only pitcher ever to win 500 games (Baseball Reference). In 1937, Young was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (Baseball Almanac). Cy Young's tombstone effectively uses both ethos and logos through statistics to convey the message of his credibility in the game of baseball as one of the top pitchers of all time. The tomb does a great job of expressing Cy Young's credibility in the game of baseball through symbols and script. Overall, the tombstone conveys that he was an incredible baseball player. Written on Cy Young's tombstone is a brief history of his playing career. It states "Cy Young pitched 874 Major League Baseball games. He won 511 games. Three no-hit and one perfect game in which no man reached first base." It doesn't go too in depth on what a no-hitter or a perfect game is, but anyone who knows about baseball would vouch for how incredible those accomplishments are. The script assumes that …show more content…
The text on the tomb, as quoted earlier, talks about three major accomplishments which convey credibility through logos. The first accomplishment of which is a perfect game, in the 100+ year history of baseball there have been only 23 perfect games, in which a pitcher does not allow anyone to reach base (Baseball Reference). The next statistic highlighted is three no hitters, which is more common but still extremely rare occurring only 294 times, is similar to a perfect game, but a runner can get on base, just not via a hit (Baseball Reference). Finally, perhaps Cy Young's greatest achievement is right at the beginning, winning 511 games, an MLB record. No one has come close, the next closest is 417 by Walter Johnson (Baseball Reference). These statistics are amazing feats and