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Originally Posted by dash_riprock
Every day this year, Newsday re-printed the Mets boxscore from 1969. One of them contained this item:
HBP: Seaver (by Gibson), Gibson (by Seaver)
Ahh the good old days. No warnings, no brawls, and both pitchers went 9, as usual.
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That was the year that Seaver was literally taking the mantel of the game's best pitcher away from Gibson. Bob must not have liked that.
We had this neighbor/uncle guy, who said this to me as I was learning the game from him in the mid-60s: "There's a kid pitching at USC who's going to be in the Hall of Fame someday ... remember this name: Tom Seaver."