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Like many of my fellow baseball fans, I sought to preserve the legacy and tradition of pitching for the future, refusing to let events like the Glorious Uprising of 1968 fade into oblivion. The names of past heroes—Mathewson, Grove, Gibson, Koufax, Seaver, among many others—were invoked in the darkest hours, when the onslaught of home runs, the rapidly inflating offensive records, and the skyrocketing ERAs grew too much to bear...
...Seaver's lasting memory of their term as Reds teammates in the late '70s is of a doubleheader: "Pete had a terrible day, a miserable day, at third base. Leaving the park late after the second game, I heard the cracking of a bat and went back out on the field to see Russ Nixon [a coach then] hitting grounders to him at third. I watched from the shadows for a while. That's Pete to me." Knowing Rose's determination, some opponents marshal their best skills especially for him, and they are his favorites. "Do you know what [Houston...
...frequent mood of misery was absent last week, and so it may not be a complete coincidence that baseball's strike was short-lived. Over an amazing prestrike weekend, baseball's Rod Carew, Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden, football's Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson and Roger Staubach, a runner named Steve Cram, a tennis player named Boris Becker and an amateur golfer named Scott Verplank had got in the first word, not for the players or the owners but for the games: excellence. On dark occasions in sports, the President and both houses of Congress can vouch for this inessential...
...American and National Leagues, toiling 19 summers in and out of the sun, and arriving at the definitive milestone of their positions on the same afternoon. For a pitcher, that means 300 victories, in the 116-year history of baseball the province of just 17 men, now including Seaver, 40. Leading up to the moment, he acted cool and professional. Only afterward would he admit, "It was like I was pitching my first major league game." The morning before, he was sitting beside his father Charles in the Chicago White Sox dugout at Yankee Stadium, just as so many years...
Once Charles Seaver was an amateur golfer of Walker Cup class renowned for his serenity under fire. His boy is quick to correct anyone who says he played golf the way Tom pitches: "I pitch the way he played golf." Finding himself in New York now was another incredibility to Seaver. "Tom is really still a Met," Mets First Baseman Keith Hernandez insisted the next day as Seaver's former New York teammates bellied around a television set (equitably enough, in Chicago). Baseball's particular prodigy, Pitcher Dwight Gooden, 20, had just won his eleventh consecutive game to break...