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...Hobson quarterbacked Alabama. Jensen played in the Rose Bowl, Horner set the college home run mark, Winfield was drafted by four leagues, and Seaver wrote his thesis on infield dirt...
...series for the University of Texas and spent last summer brightening two minor leagues. Against Detroit a few days ago, Clemens struck out three men on ten pitches, causing Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson to proclaim, "This is the best, most poised young pitcher I've seen since Tom Seaver: great rising fastball, pretty good curve, and he don't get scattery...
Near by in Sarasota, Chicago White Sox Pitcher Tom Seaver and Catcher Carlton Fisk are still getting acquainted. "Let's just go out and work," Seaver suggested before their first game. "I'll throw, you catch, and we'll sit down and talk about particulars later." The result was three hitless innings, and Seaver is rejuvenated at 39. Had the New York Mets not bungled and lost Seaver in the compensation draft, he would have been certain of his 15th opening-day start, leaving Walter Johnson in the dust. As it turns out, a surprising 19-year...
Neither Jim Palmer, 37, nor Tom Seaver, 38, will likely scale 300 victories, but they were dominant pitchers in their leagues and have three Cy Young Awards apiece to show it. Each also possesses more than a touch of glamour. A section of Palmer's adolescence was spent residing in the Los Angeles movie community, Beverly Hills, where his habit was to rise early hoping to observe Janet Leigh picking up the paper in her pink peignoir. Now Palmer can be seen in his underwear on billboards, but seldom in uniform on a mound. Pestered by various miseries, Palmer...
...There will always be great players," Seaver says, "but I don't know about the pitchers, though. I don't see the names on this list out there now. I just don't know." He has not thought of the Hall of Fame yet, because he cannot pitch there. "I misled myself from the time I was a small boy," he says, "that the celebrations in baseball were the thing. But when the Mets won the World Series in 1969, I realized that wasn't true. The competition is the thing...