Hall of Famer died of complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19
Tom Seaver, left, and Jerry Koosman speak at a press conference commemorating the New York Mets 40th anniversary of the 1969 World Championship team on August 22, 2009 at Citi Field in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Seaver has died at the age of 75. According to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Seaver died from complication due to dementia and COVID-19.
Seaver pitched for the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox during the second half of his career, winning more than 100 games, including his only no-hitter with the Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals in 1978.New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver gets ready to throw a pitch at practice in 1968.
All those achievements notwithstanding, there is no heroic Tom Seaver narrative without 1969, a year the so-called Miracle Mets won the World Series.
But he came back to pitch all 10 innings of Game 4, winning 2-1 and tilting the series in the Mets’ favour.Beyond pure statistics, he was often given credit for being the workhorse whose expectations and example dragged the Mets from worst to first. Further, both he and his wife, Nancy Lynn McIntyre, became popular objects of curiosity, recognized on the street and deluged with fan mail.
The mid-’70s saw the onset of free agency with the weakening of baseball’s reserve clause – the part of every contract that bound a player to his team indefinitely.Beginning in 1976, Seaver, who saw pitchers on other clubs being paid far more than the $225,000 he was, engaged in acrimonious negotiations over his salary with the Mets’ chairman, M. Donald Grant.
Outraged at the mention of his wife and suspicious that Mets management was the source of Young’s story, Seaver refused to sign his contract and demanded a trade. George Thomas Seaver was born in Fresno, California, on Nov. 17, 1944, the youngest of four children. His parents were both athletes. His father, Charles, who worked as an executive for the Bonner Packing Co., a producer and marketer of dried fruit, played football and basketball at Stanford and was an accomplished amateur golfer. His mother, Betty Lee, an excellent golfer herself, played basketball in high school.
In the summer of 1964, he played in an Alaskan collegiate league for the Alaska Goldpanners in Fairbanks, where his teammates included several future major leaguers including Rick Monday, Graig Nettles and pitcher Ken Holtzman, who would twice defeat the Mets in the 1973 World Series. He did well enough to earn a scholarship to the University of Southern California, whose coach, Rod Dedeaux, was known for sending ballplayers to the big leagues.
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