- Winningest pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball, with 511 victories - almost 100 more than anyone else. The only pitcher with 200 victories in both the American and National Leagues, his name was honored when the Cy Young Award - baseball's highest award for pitchers
- was created in 1956.
- In addition to the most victories for a major league pitcher, he also had the most losses: 315.
- Voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937.
- His 1952 Ohio automobile license plate read, C511Y.
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