Word: seavers
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...this day, almost a year ago now, Tom Seaver was warming up in the bullpen in Fenway Park. He was still on his first tour of the American League and was making his first appearance in the shadow of the venerable Green Monster...
...Seaver and his 258 National League victories were impressed by the surroundings, they weren't showing...
...American League had treated Seaver to an unkind first month. He had lost his only two decisions and had racked up an ERA over six and without delving much further into the gory details of his decline, he had been allowing opposition batters to hit well over...
...that May evening, the Boston weather was ominous, so the right-hander was taking his warm-up tosses deliberately, pacing him self. The 39 year old Tom Seaver knew his arm couldn't bounce right back after a rain delay, the was if had 20 years before...
...clouds and the air of doom didn't stop Seaver's delivery from being any more or less than it had been. His arm speed was down and the hop on his pitches had diminished, but his motion remained tranquilly the same as that of the 22-year-old who burst onto the major league with a 16-13 campaign in 1967 with the woeful New York Mets...