RIP Tom Seaver, 1944-2020

[G-Fafif]

[MFS62]

I hope the extra weight of the patch doesn't make him change his throwing motion. (j/k)



Later

[Centerfield]

That patch is huge.

[Centerfield]

So I saw this on TV and retract my statement. Patch is perfect.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Tom Seaver by Andy Warhol, 1977. [FIMG=555]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e9/f9/8f/e9f98ff2822815d036f8f43900ec58d7.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=555]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/cGm1kZP_TPFV05sztZaPEbXYvTl5TOJgUd19oAUZFAQZJMXw3yyOl68hkiA79a6Gqz9jYgOdLc_APzHNmJcyWoAaVttV2N3XhxD7XiVJM6Be9HaQOB-l8Iupcef05MHaDiFaeadwIHs[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://pccdn.perfectchannel.com/christies/live/images/item/WarholPastimes24900/5826490/original/NYR_3844_0024.jpg[/FIMG] [FIMG=333]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/EX5ZGbTQEcXRA6DOTVF5BFupv8imwW-jE9VLrT2lBcBZ0kflDlkcZ0n2QgDLk4-He20QAIE29dTTjLjC4sawCcf89Yy0eE4crN5hpSqQpyYR2C3wru0wiwEK5h4taQBZFDL-u9WG8UY[/FIMG] Sports portraits, 1977, by Andy Warhol [FIMG=777]https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ihXtnfrWCkmY/v0/-1x-1.jpg[/FIMG]

Did not know this 'till just now: Seaver also had a Mets cap with him during the sessions for the Warhol shoot.





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[Willets Point]

Just like Ambler had a Mets cap for his portraits.

[Edgy MD]

Interesting that he's the only team-sport athlete wearing identifying team colors in the series. OJ and Jabbar are in civvies, and Pelé might be also, for all you can make out, though it kind of looks like the cut of a fútbol jersey.

[G-Fafif]

At last.

The Mets have scheduled their Tom Seaver statue dedication for July 22 at Citi Field, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. The ceremony will take place on an off-day before the Mets' first homestand after the break, allowing members of the Mets organization and Seaver's family to be present. The Mets commissioned the statue in 2019, announcing plans for it on the same day they revealed that Citi Field's address would change to 41 Seaver Way. Groundbreaking for the statue has already begun near the Home Run Apple outside the ballpark's main entrance.

July 22 is a Thursday. I don't know why days of the week are not included in these types of stories. Or why the statue took decades.



https://www.mlb.com/news/tom-seaver-statue-dedication-on-july-22https://www.mlb.com/news/tom-seaver-statue-dedication-on-july-22

[Benjamin Grimm]

I wonder if we'll get a look at it before the unveiling. I'm very curious to see what it will look like. Since it was commissioned during the Wilpon error, I have this fear that it will be every bit as horrible as the statue of Lucille Ball in her hometown of Jamestown, NY.



https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/lucille-ball.jpg?w=800&quality=85>



WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?????



The statue was so widely ridiculed that they had to replace it, and the second one is much better:



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[Willets Point]

In the sports world, the lantern bearer for bad statues is Cristiano Ronaldo.

https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/-ci0FWYQ-vpoQ4_JzZ7ME7U-Ey8/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2014/12/22/879/n/1922398/2ea1d169e3b110e9_460748444_10/i/Cristiano-Ronaldo-Statue-Pictures.jpg>

[G-Fafif]

This was the model previewed when they announced it in 2019.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't know why ... the statue took decades. https://www.mlb.com/news/tom-seaver-statue-dedication-on-july-22https://www.mlb.com/news/tom-seaver-statue-dedication-on-july-22

Nobody knows.





And everybody knows.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: In the sports world, the lantern bearer for bad statues is Cristiano Ronaldo. [fimg=300]https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/-ci0FWYQ-vpoQ4_JzZ7ME7U-Ey8/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2014/12/22/879/n/1922398/2ea1d169e3b110e9_460748444_10/i/Cristiano-Ronaldo-Statue-Pictures.jpg[/fimg]

I bet Ronaldo doesn't think it's bad.

[Willets Point]

He's the only one who likes it.

[Edgy MD]

"Hello again, everybody! I'm broadcasting legend Harry Caray! Yeah, Cristiano looks a little off. But is he rising like a colossal Hellmonster over Wrigley Field to crush the buildings of Chicago, swinging a gargantuan microphone at all who would be foolish enough to oppose him? Is he emerging from a murky and infernal cloud of the faces of damned children? Because Soccerboy can bear all the lanterns he wants. I come to destroy them and the preposterous notion of hope they represent!"



"HA-HA!! DIE!! Your pathetic screams FEED ME!!!"



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[stevejrogers]

A site out of the UK is cataloguing a bunch of statues for sports usually associated with Europe, and the rest of that area of the world...except for baseball!



http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/statues/database_us.htm http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/statues/database_us.htm

[G-Fafif]

Kurt Streeter of the Times asks Johnny Bench about some Hall of Fame friends he's lost of late.

“He was probably the best man's man you'd ever want to be around,” said Bench, who caught Seaver's powerful pitches for Cincinnati from 1977 until 1982. “He played on many different teams, and on each one he had the respect and admiration and the love from all the players around him. I mean, he was Tom Seaver after all.” Of course, Bench spoke of Seaver's gusting fastball and pinpoint accuracy. And how a pitcher like that — smart, powerful, iron tough — made life easy for a catcher. But it wasn't Seaver's mastery from the mound that Bench really wanted to discuss. It was the bond they shared. Their long discussions. Their tongue-in-cheek banter. After his baseball career ended in 1986, Seaver retired to California and became a winemaker. Bench remembered trying to get a case from Seaver's winery at a discount. But Seaver at first told him no. “I said: ‘Tom, I'm your catcher! What if I buy two cases?' He said, ‘No, no, no.' So I said, ‘Tom, if I hadn't put down the right signals, you wouldn't even be in the Hall of Fame!' Oh, we had a great time with that. That's the way we laughed. We just shared so much fun.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/sports/baseball/johnny-bench-hall-of-fame-deaths.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/sports/baseball/johnny-bench-hall-of-fame-deaths.html

[G-Fafif]

Corbin Burnes has joined Aaron Nola in tying but not surpassing Tom Seaver's record of 10 consecutive strikeouts (against the Cubs).

[G-Fafif]

[kcmets]

Whatever happened to the Citi statue?

[G-Fafif]

Whatever happened to the Citi statue?

Its completion and unveiling will take place in 2022, pushed back one year by COVID and too many years by organizational neglect.

FLUSHING, N.Y., May 11, 2021 — The New York Mets today announced that the Tom Seaver statue unveil at Citi Field will take place Opening Day 2022. “We are excited to unveil this one-of-a-kind tribute to Tom, but it has to be right,” said Mets Team President Sandy Alderson. “Given delays related to the pandemic, the artist asked for additional time to complete his work. After conferring with the Seaver family, we made the decision to unveil the statue on Opening Day 2022.” The Seaver family said, “We are excited to celebrate the unveiling with more fans at Citi Field in 2022 and know that Tom would be proud.”

https://newyorkmets.medium.com/tom-seaver-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-2022-147e72130d70https://newyorkmets.medium.com/tom-seaver-statue-to-be-unveiled-in-2022-147e72130d70

[kcmets]

Thanks, I was half afraid to ask and that it's already there and it flew under

the radar and I'd feel like an utter moe-ronnn.

[MFS62]

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Thanks, I was half afraid to ask and that it's already there and it flew under

the radar and I'd feel like an utter moe-ronnn.

[kcmets]

Gracias!

[G-Fafif]

The Little League World Series tournament has been conducted in brackets named for Tom Seaver and Hank Aaron (h/t bmfc1).



https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2021/llbws/bracket/https://www.littleleague.org/world-series/2021/llbws/bracket/

[G-Fafif]

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Went peacefully, the family says.

[G-Fafif]

You may now drop what you're doing and drive the Tom Seaver Highway.

Hometown baseball hero Tom Seaver was honored Friday with the naming of a section of Highway 41 between Jensen and Ventura avenues in Fresno as “Tom Seaver Memorial Highway.” The official signage was unveiled during a ceremony at Chukchansi Park, attended by friends, fans and former teammates of Seaver, a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame who died on Aug. 31, 2020 at age 75. A unanimous Baseball Hall of Fame selection in 1992, Seaver first played the game at Fresno High and Fresno City College. Len Bourdet, 95, Seaver's coach at Fresno City College, was on hand Friday. In his big-league career, Seaver compiled 311 wins and won three NL Cy Young Awards as the league's best pitcher. He's also regarded as the leader of the New York “Miracle” Mets' World Series championship team in 1969, when he won a major league-leading 25 games during the regular season. “I think of Tom Seaver as one of the greatest pitchers, maybe the greatest pitcher,” said Larry Woods, a childhood friend. “Being a Fresno representative, this is quite an honor — not only for the city, but also for the region because Tom was a Valley boy. “He was a Fresno kid, and we need to always remember his heritage and the job he did as a commensurate athlete, and one who showed us how to really play the game, but to live the life.”

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article259056548.htmlhttps://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article259056548.html

[Willets Point]

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[bIGPURPLE]Fresno? Nobody goes to Fresno anymore![/bIGPURPLE]