Tom Seaver Has Died

[COL Mustard]

RIP Tom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/tom-seaver-hall-of-fame-pitcher-for-new-yorks-miracle-mets-of-69-dies-at-75/2020/09/02/14dd0764-ed7d-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar

[mobeau69]

1. Bad news on the doorstep. This one hurts.

[COL Mustard]

2. He Was A Good Guy

Dementia is a bitch.

[mobeau69]

4. I got to watch him in Riverfront.

After he retired somebody asked him who was the best catcher he ever threw to and without hesitation he said Jerry Grote.

[Aristus]

7. My mother went to high school with Jerry Grote.

Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio.

[mobeau69]

9. Cool. I can see him in my minds eye right now moving around the plate.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Indeed. RIP Tom

[BeyondGeography]

3. From the link

“Pitching is what makes me happy,” he told Sports Illustrated in 1972. “I’ve devoted my life to it. I live my life around the four days between starts. It determines what I eat, when I go to bed, what I do when I’m awake. It determines how I spend my life when I’m not pitching.”

I love that quote because he always looked like the perfect pitcher to me. Seamless delivery, always one step ahead of the hitter. Physically and mentally all there.

[Penn Voter]

5. RIP

Tom "Terrific" My dad and I saw him pitch at Shea Stadium back in April, 1969 against the St. Louis Cardinals and Bob Gibson. It was a great thrill to see two hall of fame pitchers in their prime and it brings back great memories. Tom Seaver was not only a great pitcher but a great family man and fine person.

[Kingofalldems]

6. COVID-19.

Another victim of Donald Trump.

[Awsi Dooger]

8. Tom Terrific

I heard many stories about him at USC. All positive. He was the All-America image of that era, contrasting with brash Broadway Joe. I remember the shaving cream commercials

I stayed home from school one day to watch a game in that '69 World Series. That's when the games were still during daytime

RIP

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. Top Ten ATG Pitcher

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When he was a young man Hank Aaron went up to him. Tom said I'm surprised you know who I am. Hank said pretty soon the whole world will know who you are. One time Muhammad Ali's confidante and biographer Thomas Hauser took Tom Seaver and Muhammad Ali out to dinner. After the dinner Ali said to Hauser, he seems like a nice guy what does he do?

[babylonsister]

10. Tom Seaver, the best Mets player ever, dies from COVID, dementia complications

I remember him. I'm sure I collected his baseball card.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/sports/mlb/mets/2020/09/02/tom-seaver-ny-mets-legend-dead-covid-dementia-complications/5699265002/

[Roland99]

13. :(

[Stallion]

14. Isn't His Rookie Card Extremely Valuable? Also Nolan Ryan who came Up with Mets

I know I've got a couple Tom Seaver Rookie Cards. Never really got professional estimate but if I have to live through another Republican President they may be my retirement portfolio

[greenjar_01]

11. Let's go Mets

The Boyscout

[mobeau69]

12. Dwight Gooden

Link to tweet

[MontanaMama]

15. Tom Terrific.

Damn. This hurts.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Rest In Peace, Tom Terrific.

[MerryBlooms]

17. Another victim of trump. My condolences and RIP.

[MustLoveBeagles]

19. RIP

[jcmaine72]

21. R.I.P. Franchise

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. Watched him at Riverfront (Reds).

His fast pitches looked effortless. Johnny Bench was thrilled by the signing.

[PCIntern]

23. I don't know if this is true,

But I once saw a post on a baseball site that mentioned a statistic that if Seaver had won 1/2 the games he lost 1-0 or 2 -1, he’d have had 500 wins. Supposedly, like Hamels of the Phillies, the team didn't score many runs for him.

Not certain of the validity of this though, but it sounds about right.

[Mr. Ected]

24. Tom Seaver in a roundabout way drew me closer to my father

I was a huge Tom Seaver fan as a little boy. I once had to write a book report and mine was on a book about Tom Terrific. I waxed poetic, at least as much as a 11 year old was able, and concluded that I admired Tom so much I wished that he was my father. Well, my dad read my book report and spoke with me about it later. He had tears in his eyes and told me how much it hurt to have read that I wished Seaver had been my father. I honestly had meant him no disrespect but I realized at that moment how much I'd hurt him and I made it a point to show my father the extent of my love and respect for him for the rest of my life.

No, Tom Seaver had nothing to do with this, but reading this story made me think of him and then my book report. God I miss my dad.

RIP Tom. You were a great pitcher, probably a great guy to know, and probably a great father to boot. I know my dad was.

[Yeehah]

25. One of my boyhood heroes

Not sure how I became a Mets fan growing up in Maryland, but I was and I had a big poster of Tom Seaver on my wall. He always impressed me as a good person and role model.