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Forget the “modernization” of the game for a second. If you gave Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan, and Jim Palmer modern nutrition, training, and pitch analytics, they wouldn’t just survive. They’d own the ...
With David Wright being honored with the retirement of his No. 5, you have to wonder if any other prominent player wore that ...
The first time I met Tom Seaver, I was more nervous than I ever had been introducing myself to an athlete. It was 1981. I had worked at The Washington Post for four years. I had covered the Final ...
The long goodbye has ended. The Mets’ “Franchise” is gone. Tom Seaver, the greatest of all Mets who dropped out of public life in March of 2019 after being diagnosed with dementia died early ...
When Tom Seaver made this walk each morning, he chatted along the way with his late mother or his older brother, Charles, who’d died from cancer decades ago. A little more than three years ago ...
Tom Seaver, a Hall of Fame pitcher who helped the “Miracle” New York Mets win the World Series in 1969 and won 311 games over a 20-year major league career, has died at 75. According to the ...
It was the equivalent of the boxing undercard with regard to blockbuster baseball transactions. New York Mets fans of a certain age remember all too well when the organization traded three-time Cy ...
Tom Seaver Getty Images Seaver, whose No. 41 is only one of two player uniforms retired by the Mets (Mike Piazza’s No. 31 is the other), returned to the organization in later years as a ...
“Well, well,” said Tom Seaver, “look what the cat drug in.” Even though it was barely 8:30 in the morning, Seaver had already made his rounds up and down the steep hills of the ...
Manager Gil Hodges with Jerry Koosman, Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan. (Gene Kappock/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) The Mets were horrible during their first six seasons and only somewhat ...
His face told you: Yes. Yes, it is that time again. Forty years ago Thursday, the Mets traded Tom Seaver to the Reds for four prospects who became four undistinguished players. This is the story ...