Zack Greinke on the cover of Sports Illustrated (May 4, 2009)
Zack Greinke on the cover of Sports Illustrated on this day 17 years ago. Greinke won the 2009 AL Cy Young in a landslide with a 2.16 ERA and a 16-8 record for the last-place Royals. The New York Times called his win “a watershed moment in baseball’s statistical revolution,” the first time voters seemed to ignore pitcher wins as a meaningful statistic. Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, and CC Sabathia each had 19 wins that year, but received just three of the 28 first-place votes among them.
Swipe to see the late Dikembe Mutumbo’s final moment as an NBA player, Derrick Rose rise to block a Rajon Rondo floater, Kelly Slater riding a wave, and a bonus ad featuring David Lee wooing a woman with the seductive scents of Right Guard Xtreme Clear Power Gel Fast Break.








