Another spring cleaning gem.
As mentioned in the comments for the 1985 Seaver Magazine covers, I was at Seaver’s 300th career win at Yankee stadium on August 4th, 1985 (as was Osh41 though we wouldn’t know each other for several more years).
The Yankees had scheduled Phil Rizzuto Day for that game – and had a special edition of Yankees Magazine available:
Prior to the game the Yankees honored Rizzuto, including presenting him with a “Holy Cow” – which proceeded to knock Scooter to the ground. During the ceremony, Seaver walked across the field from the bullpen to the dugout at which point the crowd (heavily dominated by Mets fans) started cheering. Sadly Rizzuto thought the cheering was for him and started thanking the crowd.
By this point I was keeping score at most games I attended – and certainly wanted to capture this game. Dave Winfield was featured on the cover (0 for 4 on the day with 1 K). (Interestingly, my scoring style has not changed too much in the last 26 years)
Looking back, 4 Hall of Famers played in that game – Seaver, Fisk, Winfield, and Henderson.
Another complete game for tom terrific also striking out 7 all done in his 40’s!!..freaken losers that pitch today could not hold a candel to him even though they are getting paid 10 times more then he was getting..pathetic!
the life of ol’ number 41 after the mets
he wins his 300th at yankee stadium
he was in the red sox uniform at shea during the world series.
he was a former yankee broadcaster
he returns to the mets only to be left off of the protected list.
he had a second chance to end his carrer with mets and they screwed that up.
did the mets front office have substance abuse issues that we did not know about?
he was my idol when i was 9 years old.
from day one,it just seemed fitting he would be a met for life,even after retirement. not as a broadcaster(he did well as the weeend anchor at WCBS channel 2) he had the intellegence and savvy to be a general manager as well.
some times i wonder was there a love hate vibe that never went away after he was traded in 1977.