Tom Seaver
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"George Thomas "Tom" Seaver", nicknamed ""Tom Terrific"" and ""The Franchise"", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched from 1967-1986 for four different teams in his career, but is noted primarily for his time with the New York Mets. During a 20-year career, Seaver compiled 311 win (baseball statistics)/wins, 3,640 strikeouts, 61 shutouts and a 2.86 earned run average. In , he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the highest percentage ever recorded (98.84%), and has the only plaque at Cooperstown wearing a New York Mets hat. As of 2010, Tom Seaver and Gil Hodges (played for the Mets in 1962-63) are the only Met players to have their jersey numbers retired by the team (Gil Hodges' number was retired as a manager even though he also played for the Mets).

He won the National League MLB Rookie of the Year award/Rookie of the Year Award in 1967, and three NL Cy Young Awards as the league's best pitcher. Seaver is the Mets' all-time leader in wins, and is considered by many baseball experts as one of the best starting pitchers in the history of baseball.

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The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

I wanted to say, 'What the heck are you doing out here?' And I probably did say something like that.

My job isn't to strike guys out, its to get them out, sometimes by striking them out.

I don't remember ours at all because at the time it was nothing special, ... It's what you were expected to do and what we expected of ourselves.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Because maybe it will trigger something. Maybe complete games will make a comeback.

There are only two places in the league - first place and no place.