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Message: [QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 3494213, member: 626"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2020/09/02/tom-seaver-greatest-met-ever-dead-at-75/[/URL] It’s 1969 and I’m just a kid, a kid with a broken wrist heading to Jamaica Hospital, off the Van Wyck Expressway near Linden Blvd, Queens. I’d been engaged in some horseplay with neighborhood friends and ended up falling awkwardly, resulting in this necessary emergency room sojourn. I hardly remember anything about that day other then that it was Fall, and the Mets, my beloved Mets, were playing in the World Series vs the hated Baltimore Orioles. The game was at Shea Stadium, less than a mile & within shouting distance of where I was headed. We drove to the hospital and as I walked the halls to get my wrist checked out, every room, every car, every corner of the place had a radio playing, giving us a minute by minute snapshot of the ongoing game. I wasn’t worried, not in the least, because the Amazins had Tom Seaver on the mound, and where Tom Terrific went, miracles followed. My Dad tried to keep me focused on the game to help me deal with pain, but he really didn’t have to. He knew how much the Metsies meant to all us kids in Queens NY. You see Seaver was my first sports hero along with Willis Reed, Clyde Frazier, Don Cledendon, Tommy Agee, Joe Namath, Emerson Boozer, and a pantheon of NY Sports icons that made NYC “Titletown, USA”. Because in 1969, NYC won the dream trifecta as the Mets, Jets, and Knicks brought home the championship gold. But for me, it all began with Tom Seaver, who made my youth so very enjoyable. It was he who lifted us kids from Queens, who’d been ridiculed for years for following a team who’s only redeeming feature was that they were led by the “Perfessor” the immortal, irascible, slightly loopy, Casey Stengel. But Seaver...well, he changed all of that. He made us winners. He made us Amaaazing!! RIP Tom Terrific, and thank you. [/QUOTE]

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