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...spring is a season for aging veterans and hopeful rookies, this is a particularly auspicious time for Tom Seaver, who is both. After almost six years in Cincinnati, Seaver is back where he began, with the New York Mets, who promise to be as dreadful as they were when Seaver was a rookie in 1967, the last time they lost 100 games. The question is not whether he will win again at 38, just whether he will pitch well again after a 5-13 year that aged a lot of people a little...
...short, happy spin through American baseball, when his record was 4-1. Patriotism required Murakami's presence in Japan all the seasons since, but now he is back in a cactus camp, no more inclined to take a hike than his former teammate Perry, and no older than Seaver...
...Seaver is perched on the edge of a training table in St. Petersburg, Fla., after pitching five innings against Toronto, allowing four runs in the second inning but none in the others. There is that signature streak of dirt on Seaver's pant leg below his right knee, residue from the relentless scraping of an unchanging delivery. He has not changed so much at that. Most young throwers get to the major leagues with "good stuff' and only fall back on pitching later. But Seaver could always pitch...
...Seaver will overtake Johnson in another way with one pitch if Tom opens for the Mets against the Phillies next week. It would be his 14th opening day and tie the record. Seaver never won one for the Reds, never lost one for the Mets. The first pitch on opening day is like the first horn on New Year's Eve. And it does not have to be a fastball. -By Tom Callahan
...Seaver was the winning pitcher as the N.Y. Mets beat...