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Old 09-03-2020, 09:33 AM
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Being a kid and very much a baseball fan in the 70's, Seaver was one of the top cards to pull from a pack.
I think the thing I remember about him the most is how low he got on his delivery.
I remember him having clay marks on his right knee as it scrapped the mound.
As a pitcher in little league, I would try to copy him. But I could never get that low.
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Being a kid and very much a baseball fan in the 70's, Seaver was one of the top cards to pull from a pack.
I think the thing I remember about him the most is how low he got on his delivery.
I remember him having clay marks on his right knee as it scrapped the mound.
As a pitcher in little league, I would try to copy him. But I could never get that low.
Sure the pitching style added big time to his longevity. Driving on legs, engaging glutes for power . . . had to have taken some of the brute force off of shoulder and arm.
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Sure the pitching style added big time to his longevity. Driving on legs, engaging glutes for power . . . had to have taken some of the brute force off of shoulder and arm.
I remember seeing an interview with him where he discussed this very issue.
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I remember Seaver was a Yankee announcer for a few years in the early 90's. I thought he did a really good job, but Steinbrenner didn't like him because he wasn't enough of a homer and he got fired.
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RIP Tom!

Here he is in 1966 while with the Jacksonville Suns, well before the Miracle Mets made history:

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