R.I.P. Tom Seaver
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This quote by Keith Hernandez just about sums it all up:
@keithhernandez
I am deeply saddened of the passing of Tom Seaver. I had the honor of unsuccessfully hitting against him & having as a teammate. He is the greatest Met of all time. No one will ever surpass him that wears the orange & blue. My condolences to Nancy & his family. Tears.
@keithhernandez
I am deeply saddened of the passing of Tom Seaver. I had the honor of unsuccessfully hitting against him & having as a teammate. He is the greatest Met of all time. No one will ever surpass him that wears the orange & blue. My condolences to Nancy & his family. Tears.
I was going on nine that year. It got me into baseball. I have such a clear image in my mind of his delivery, dragging that right knee in the dirt. Read an obituary today that only increased my respect for him. When he was in college, Lasorda offered him a $2K signing bonus with the Dodgers. He asked for $50K and Lasorda wished him good luck in his dental career.
Dude deserves his own thread.
One of the greatest pitchers of all time and a class act.
He should have been a Yankee and he could have spent his whole career in New York instead of the cheap Mets bungling it twice.
I saw him pitch live once, against the Cardinals at Mets Old Timers day.
The real game, not the old timers game.
He took a line drive off the shin from some scrub named Luis Melendez and had to leave the game.
Most of my memories of him were working the Pix games with the Scooter. They were hilarious together with Seaver always reminding him how he ruined Phil Rizzuto Day by winning his 300th game.
But Seaver was a very knowledgeable announcer and I remember there was talk of him becoming the Yankees GM.
One of the greatest pitchers of all time and a class act.
He should have been a Yankee and he could have spent his whole career in New York instead of the cheap Mets bungling it twice.
I saw him pitch live once, against the Cardinals at Mets Old Timers day.
The real game, not the old timers game.
He took a line drive off the shin from some scrub named Luis Melendez and had to leave the game.
Most of my memories of him were working the Pix games with the Scooter. They were hilarious together with Seaver always reminding him how he ruined Phil Rizzuto Day by winning his 300th game.
But Seaver was a very knowledgeable announcer and I remember there was talk of him becoming the Yankees GM.
I had a Tom Seaver Rawlings glove when I was a kid. Brought it to a game in 83-84.. Dave “King Kong” Kingman ripped a foul ball right at me (I was on the 3rd base line). Put my glove up and the ball blew right through the webbing and kept going. I didn’t get the ball. And it was the end of my Tom Seaver glove....
