Induction tribute will feature game’s best, Hall favorites By CHARLIE VASCELLARO • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Each year the Hall of Fame Induction ceremony begins with a roll call of members of the baseball community who have passed during the previous calendar year projected on a jumbotron video screen adjacent to the stage where the returning members of the Hall are seated. This year’s “In Memoriam” recognition stings with a particular poignancy in a continued season of mourning both across the…
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Tom Seaver
Be Failing, But Tom Seaver’s Victories Immortal To the Editor: I read this afternoon about Tom Seaver’s health. My favorite Seaver memory (and my favorite New York Mets memory of all … and I was at Game 6!) was going to a July game at Shea in 1969. It was a big family deal. We got new shirts, new socks. It was sunny. It was hot. The L-I-E was going to be packed and stalled with overheating cars heading toward…
Hall Of Fame Regrets Tom Seaver’s Decline Mets’ Pitcher Has Dementia, Family Says COOPERSTOWN – Hall of FameR Tom Seaver’s family announced today that, due to dementia, he is “retiring from public life.” “Tom will continue to work in his beloved vineyard at his California home,” The Hall said in a statement, “but has chosen to completely retire from public life. “The family is deeply appreciative of those who have supported Tom throughout his career, on and off the field,…