(CNN) -- The Cy Young Award winners as Major League Baseball's best pitchers in 2012 couldn't be more different. In the American League, a young left-hander with a blazing fastball, entering the prime of his career, narrowly topped the 2011 recipient. In the National League, a 38-year-old knuckleballer with a mediocre track record until 2010 made his mark on history. Is baseball still the national pastime? The Tampa Bay Rays' David Price garnered just enough votes from the Baseball Writers' Association of America to win the AL prize. Price, 27, tied for the American League lead with 20 wins, against only five losses, and led the AL with a 2.56 earned run average. Both those marks were career bests for the former Vanderbilt University star, whom the Rays chose with the top pick in the entire 2007 amateur draft. Price also struck out 205 batters, sixth-most in the league.
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Tampa Bay Rays fireballer David Price wins the American League Cy Young Award
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New York Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey wins the National League Cy Young Award
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2011 winners Justin Verlander and Clayton Kershaw come in second in their leagues
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Annual pitching awards are voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association of America
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