Tom Seaver, the greatest Met
of all time, dies at 75
Daily News [New York, NY],
by
Bill Madden
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
9/2/2020 10:11:22 PM
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 Monday. According to family sources, Seaver, 75, died peacefully at his home in Calistoga, Calif., from complications from Lyme disease, dementia and COVID-19. He leaves behind 311 victories, 3,640 career strikeouts, three Cy Young Awards and countless millions New York baseball fans who forever cherish the memories of the Miracle Mets 1969 championship season and his starring role in it.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
formerNYer 9/2/2020 10:16:23 PM (No. 529592)
Sad :(
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 9/2/2020 10:27:08 PM (No. 529603)
Sad to hear, condolences to the family. He seemed like a genuinely nice guy. We need more pro athletes like him, not the clowns we have today.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
thewarden 9/2/2020 10:38:56 PM (No. 529610)
I’m a 55 year old (omg...I can’t believe it) female baseball fan. This news makes me sad. Nice guy, from all accounts. RIP, Tom.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 9/2/2020 10:43:57 PM (No. 529615)
"The amazing thing," my friend Art Shamsky told me a few years ago, "is that you’d be around Tom and people would always want to shake his hand and say hello and thank him for all the thrills he gave them, and he would smile and act cool, like this was the most natural thing in the world to him." He shook his head. "And it was only a little later, when he was alone again, when he’d shake his head and say, simply, 'People have been so nice to me my whole life.'"
https://nypost.com/2020/09/02/mets-legend-tom-seaver-was-truest-definition-of-a-hero/
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Eagle4ever 9/2/2020 10:55:37 PM (No. 529624)
Tom Terrific !! I had the pleasure of shaking his hand when he was in Boston.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
droopydog 9/2/2020 11:14:11 PM (No. 529634)
Wow, there is a lot of interesting info in this article. He certainly had a full life. I would have been proud to shake his hand.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 9/2/2020 11:24:53 PM (No. 529638)
Would Tom have taken a knee? Or Koosman? Kranepool? Gil Hodges? I wonder.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
49 Ford 9/2/2020 11:28:02 PM (No. 529643)
Very sad news. I grew up in N.Y. and thrilled to the Miracle of '69. May God bless and keep him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
varkdriver 9/2/2020 11:35:40 PM (No. 529647)
A true professional and gentleman. Despite the Mets inept leadership trading him or stupidly allowing him to get away, he remained a true Met hero. For many years, his number 41 was the only player number retired by the Mets; they had also retired 37 (long-suffering manager Casey Stengel in the early years) and 16 (manager and Brooklyn Dodger star Gil Hodges of the 1969 World Series Champions; Hodges died of cancer in 1972). Mike Piazza's number 31 was retired by the Mets in 2016 when he was voted into the Hall of Fame.
Rest in peace, Tom Terrific!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sceptic82 9/2/2020 11:54:31 PM (No. 529657)
Of all the horrible news in 2020, this was the first to bring a tear. God bless, Tom Terrific. Thank you for many childhood memories.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 9/3/2020 12:53:44 AM (No. 529698)
Thanks OP for a great article, even now a Cubbies’ fan!
KAG
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Grounded 9/3/2020 1:25:35 AM (No. 529709)
Saw Tom pitch in the spring of 71 in the Astrodome going head to head with Larry Dierker. The Astros won the game something like 2-1 or 3-2 on a Bud Harrelson miscue late in the game that led to the winning run. Dierker was no slouch as a pitcher himself but he had the misfortune of playing for some barely mediocre Astro teams.
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As a stupid kid in Baltimore in 1969, Seaver went
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to the top of my hierarchy of hatred along with another New Yorker, Joe Namath. I got over it a long time ago. RIP, Tom.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 9/3/2020 2:17:57 AM (No. 529729)
#13, 14, were weren’t stupid back then as kids in B’more, just Orioles’ fans, walking with our folks to our ‘old’ stadium...
How the world has changed.
[Mom, and other patriots, back then got brother’s Boys’ Latin communist algebra teacher fired... ‘Nothing new, under the sun.’]
KAG
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