“It makes me ecstatic with happiness for Nolan,” Seaver said before Tuesday’s SMU Athletic Forum Luncheon in Dallas. “I’m not surprised at all. Once he turned the corner and his real inner core work ethic started, I’m not surprised a bit, not one iota. I think he was intimidated with a couple of things real early in New York, one of them being New York. Once the organization, the Angels, they gave him the ball [that was where it all began].”