Word: seavers
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BOSTON--Veteran pitcher Tom Seaver, who could not reach a contract with the Red Sox before a midnight deadline, may not be resigned by the American League champions even after he is eligible, said General Manager Lou Gorman...
...Mazzilli's pinch hit for Pitcher Sid Fernandez started to restore the manager's public brilliance. "Mazzilli was a hero here in New York before he was shipped to no-man's-land -- Pittsburgh and Texas. I like to see guys come back and be stars again." Tom Seaver, the ultimate Mets' star, sat out the series in the Boston clubhouse. Now and then, in the quiet time after games, Seaver leaned back on a locker and raised a sheet of X rays to the light. At 41, he underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee late last week...
...league had such a strong starting rotation? One has to look back a decade, to Baltimore's Palmer-Cuellar-Dobson-MacInally rotation to find such an agglomeration of hurlers on one American League team. Nor have the Sox, who now sport the rotation of Clemens-Boyd-Hurst-Seaver-Nipper, boasted such pitching in a decade. One wonders whether Clemens, Boyd and Hurst would have all won 20 games if Hurst's leg and Boyd's head muscles had been in working order earlier in the season...
Aside from averting the June swoon, the biggest story in Boston is the arrival, from vastly different trajectories, of two of the best pitchers ever to wear the Red Sox uniform: Roger Clemens, 23, and Tom Seaver, 41. Last week, two days after being traded from the Chicago White Sox, Seaver made his first start for Boston, labored mightily against the Blue Jays, and hung on to win, 9-7; it was his first victory since April 23. The next night Clemens pitched ( superbly against the same Jays, giving up three hits and striking out eight, but lost...
...much of last year with arm and shoulder injuries and after surgery began spring training throwing like an old man. By April 29, however, he threw hard enough to strike out 20 Seattle Mariners in a nine-inning game, breaking by one K a major-league record held by Seaver, among others. When Cooperstown asked for his glove, cap, uniform and spikes, Clemens phoned his family and said, "I'm in the Hall of Fame!" and promised an early visit to the baseball museum to observe his former equipment. With a fastball timed at 93-to-97 m.p.h...