RIP Tom Terrific

[Bulldog Bruce]

Tom Seaver was my first sports hero. He made my Mets a champion and was always a good influence. I miss those days.

Tom "Teriffic" Seaver

 

[PineGroveBully]

I’m not old enough to have watched him play. I think his career was ending about the time I was born. He did very few media requests or interviews but a year or two back he was in St Louis and they had him in the booth for a couple innings and I really enjoyed listening to him. He said the difference between him and ownership (Gussy Busch I guess at the time) as far as him staying with the Cardinals was $5000. Talk about letting a gem get away.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

My favorite major league pitcher when I was younger.

RIP.

 

[Drebin]

I’m not old enough to have watched him play. I think his career was ending about the time I was born. He did very few media requests or interviews but a year or two back he was in St Louis and they had him in the booth for a couple innings and I really enjoyed listening to him. He said the difference between him and ownership (Gussy Busch I guess at the time) as far as him staying with the Cardinals was $5000. Talk about letting a gem get away.

Staying with the Cardinals? I'm confused. Tom Seaver's biggest association with St. Louis is that he no-hit them once and that he got his 3,000th strikeout against them (the great Keith Hernandez to be specific). Seaver never pitched for the Cards.

 

[$altyDawg]

He pitched for my favorite team, the Reds, for about 5 years starting in the late 70's. As a kid that was about 10 at the time, I can remember being very excited about Seaver joining my team.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Yep, I was thinking Steve Carlton while talking of Tom Seaver.

 

[DawgInThe256]

This 2019 article in SI about Seaver was really good.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/10/23/tom-seaver-1969-mets-world-series

 

[mount lefroy]

To age myself, when I was 12 I KNEW that I could hit any pitcher in the world. Not necessarilly for a base hit, because I wasnt that strong. But Seaver was the one I imagined myself going against.

And no. I wasnt that good. I was just that cocky about my baseball ability at that age. I couldnt imagine striking out EVER.

Tom seemed like baseball purity to me.