Two days in a row the Indians have won national awards.  First it was C.C. Sabathia winning the  AL Cy Young Award.  Now today, Tribe Manager Eric Wedge wins AL Manager of the Year award.

Wedge became the first Cleveland manager to win the AL award.  Wedge received 19 of the 28 first-place ballots.

What a great way to start off a new blog.

C.C. Sabathia wins AL Cy Young Award.  It has a good ring to it.  Can you name the ONLY other Indian to win the Cy Young Award while wearing the Tribe uniform?

Nope.  Try again.

The only other Cleveland pitcher to win the award was Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry in 1972.  Sabathia is the first African-American pitcher to win a Cy Young Award since Dwight Gooden of the Mets in ‘85, and the first in the AL since Oakland’s Vida Blue in ‘71.

Sabathia was 19-7 with a 3.21 ERA, 209 strikeouts, and pitching a major league-high 241 innings.

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