Conventional baseball wisdom has long held that relief pitchers faced rather imposing hurdles when itcame time for voting on the Cy Young Award an understandable bit of discrimination that led to thecreation of separate awards for those late-inning specialists. But challenging for the prestigious Cy YoungAward still remained an option and through the years a handful have managed it. But its a pretty exclusiveclub numbering only nine members coincidentally the same number of pitchers who have won both theCy Young and the MVP Award in the same season. Rollie Fingers parlayed a remarkable 1981 campaign atage 35 into membership in both noble groups. Returning to the American League after his four-year stintin San Diego Fingers joined the Milwaukee Brewers in that historic and irksome 1981 season bedeviled bylabor wrangles and a truncated schedule. The unflappable Fingers weathered that storm handily turning inarguably his finest campaign with a microscopic ERA of 1.06 and 28 saves in a shortened season.

This iconic award consists of a visually striking silver-plated design mounted on a black-lacquered woodenplaque measuring 13 1/2-by-16 inches. The centerpiece of the near 11-pound award is a lifelike sculptedpitchers hand sprouting from the mound of a baseball diamond and clutching a ball with a two-fingeredgrip. Relief lettering above and below reads CY YOUNG AWARD and PRESENTED TO ROLLIE FINGERS- MOST VALUABLE PITCHER - AMERICAN LEAGUE. The design elements and the plaque backing areextremely well preserved and highly presentable; there is one tiny barely visible x scratch on the blackwood board and little or no scuffing on the edges of the board. Fingers has signed in bold silver Sharpie onthe back of the plaque adding the inscription 1981 Cy Young Award. One of the finest individual baseballawards of the modern-era ever presented at public auction.

Comes with a LOA Rollie Fingers.

Pre-certified by PSA/DNA.