Tom Terrific passes away - only 75

[chalupacollects]

Tom Seaver passed today at 75 from dementia caused by Lime disease...

Sad day for one of our own home grown Mets...

Here's a toast of wine to you Tom!

[Bobbycee]

I just heard & had that rush of sadness go through me. My first ever Favorite Baseball player. What a sad day in such a crappy year.

[bmattioli]

One my my favorites of all time.. RIP..

[Snapolit1]

Loved watching him pitch.

Have enjoyed his wine.

Met him once and he was really unnecessary nasty to me. Like bizarrely so.

Oh well. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

[kailes2872]

I was just telling my wife that it is crazy to think that the Reds won the 75 & 76 World Series and then added one of the top 5 pitchers in baseball (Carlton, Palmer, Hunter, Seaver, and maybe Ryan). I only remember the back end of his career and never really saw him at his best.

What is weird for me is that he is really one of the first ones that I remember watching passing of somewhat natural causes. I know that it said that he had Covid-19 in the obit, but I remember the announcement of him no longer doing public appearances due to the onset of dementia (If I recall correctly - apologies if I am misremembering).

I am 48 and I remember watching players like Seaver, Bench, Rose, Brett, Schmidt, and the ilk on This Week in Baseball and thinking that they were super human the way the ran in slow motion and pitched in slow motion at the end of the show when the credits rolled. They are forever young etched in my memory and it makes me understand my own mortality when I think of Tom being gone.

[Snapolit1]

Lewy body dementia + Covid. Same dementia Robin Williams had.

Originally Posted by kailes2872

I was just telling my wife that it is crazy to think that the Reds won the 75 & 76 World Series and then added one of the top 5 pitchers in baseball (Carlton, Palmer, Hunter, Seaver, and maybe Ryan). I only remember the back end of his career and never really saw him at his best.

What is weird for me is that he is really one of the first ones that I remember watching passing of somewhat natural causes. I know that it said that he had Covid-19 in the obit, but I remember the announcement of him no longer doing public appearances due to the onset of dementia (If I recall correctly - apologies if I am misremembering).

I am 48 and I remember watching players like Seaver, Bench, Rose, Brett, Schmidt, and the ilk on This Week in Baseball and thinking that they were super human the way the ran in slow motion and pitched in slow motion at the end of the show when the credits rolled. They are forever young etched in my memory and it makes me understand my own mortality when I think of Tom being gone.

[whitehse]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Lewy body dementia + Covid. Same dementia Robin Williams had.

And Bill Buckner too!

[JollyElm]

A very sad day.

As The Kinks said in "Come Dancing"..."Part of my childhood died, just died."

[marzoumanian]

How sad. I grew up in NJ and was 14 in 1969 when the Mets won the World Series. So I remember all the excitement vividly. What a wonderful human being. I had heard he was struggling. Thank you, Tom, for leading that team the way you did.
Years later I got very lucky. I was at Yankee Stadium on August 4, 1985 and witnessed Tom winning his 300th game pitching for the White Sox. RIP.
P.S. for trivia fans. That same day, August 4, 1985, Rod Carew got his 3000th hit on the West Coast.

[rjackson44]

Rest in peace class act

[hcv123]

and remember the 74 clearly the 74 Seaver card being the best card you could get out of a pack here in Long Island NY. He was definitely my childhood favorite. Dementia is a horrible disease - RIP!

[Seven]

It's a shame, however he is no longer suffering from such a cruel disease. Dementia is a terrible thing.

[painthistorian]

As a Long Islander since birth, we had our heroes and Tom Seaver was one of the keys. He was an extroadinary athlete, a fabulous personality that NY LOVED and a truly amazing family man, he will be missed. I was blessed to spend an hour with Tom & my family at Last Licks in Huntington in which I took a family photo with Tom and got it developed and he signed to us same night, he was impressed. We signed him one identical photo, also from my family to Tom Seaver, he loved that! and we all had ice cream together, one of life's amazing moments! I really will miss this amazing man.

[Jason19th]

Originally Posted by chalupacollects

Tom Seaver passed today at 75 from dementia caused by Lime disease...

Sad day for one of our own home grown Mets...

Here's a toast of wine to you Tom!

The reports say he had Lewy Body Dementia which is often confused with Lyme disease but is a totally different condition

[packs]

I was fortunate enough to meet Tom Seaver at a show in Westchester forever ago when he was still doing signings. I was probably 10 and he was very nice to me when it was my turn to get my ball signed. He invited me behind the table and asked me my name and other small things about myself. I'll always remember it.

[jsq]

lewy dementia or whatever it is called, als lou gherigs disease, brain cancer, etc.

i have long thought that their is something used on the grass, fertilzer or some chemical at these major league parks that is destroying these players, it seems too high a percentage of baseball players getting weird neurological problems versus the general population. who knows, maybe something in the water they drink at a specific stadium. i would love someone geared to this line of analysis prove me wrong.

a good test may be if the groundskeepers or other employees of the park suffer a high level of this type of stuff.

tom seaver, i was stunned at dementia at 75. do you remember him pitching, how the hell does this get end up at 75 with dementia, bizarre.

if i was the major league players association i would get someone who knows what they are doing and look into this. something does not seem to add up.

is this the same for baseball as brain injuries for football players?

jsq

[darwinbulldog]

Very sad. Seaver was my favorite player to collect my first time around in the hobby, and I just bought a lot of his 70s and 80s cards last week for old times' sake.

[tedzan]

As many of you know, I'm a long-time avid Yankees fan. Anyhow, in 1969 I was rooting for the Mets and Tom Seaver.

Furthermore, I used to really enjoy when Phil Rizzuto, Tom Seaver, and Bill White would broadcast the Yankees games back in the late 1980's - early 1990's.


GOD Bless Tom Seaver....and comfort his Family and fans.






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[Leon]

Another legend gone. RIP Tom

[Gary Dunaier]

Here's his rookie page in the 1967 Mets Yearbook...




...and here's a picture I took of him signing a bat at the "50 Years of Amazin' Baseball" autograph show at Citi Field, January 22, 2012.