On this day in history, May 5, 1904, Cy Young pitches first perfect game in World Series Era

Denton True "Cyclone" Young pitched the first perfect game in modern baseball history for the Boston Americans; the feat has been matched only 20 times in the 119 years since.

Cy Young, pitching for the recently established Boston Americans, threw the first perfect game of the World Series era on this day in history, May 5, 1904. 

Young mowed down 27 straight batters in front of 10,267 fans at the former Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston as the Americans — later renamed the Red Sox — beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.

Perfect games are one of the rarest feats in all of sports — with an average of less than 1 per 10,000 games.

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The imposing 6-foot-2-inch, 210-pound fireballer played 22 seasons of big-league baseball, won 511 games — a record that has never been approximated — and is the namesake of the award given to the best pitcher in each Major League Baseball league every year. 

Young was also the ace of the Boston team that won the first World Series in 1903. 

Cy Young, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, warms up before a game at Huntingdon Ave. Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1908.  (Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

"It’s no job for me to pick out my greatest day in baseball," the Gilmore, Ohio farmboy turned all-time great said years later, in an interview provided by Major League Baseball. 

"It was May 5, 1904, when I was pitching … and beat the Philadelphia Athletics without a run, hit or man reaching first. Of all the 906 games I pitched in the big leagues, that one stands clearest in my mind."

"It’s no job for me to pick out my greatest day in baseball. It was May 5, 1904." — Cy Young