Episode 285: "Tom Seaver"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

For generations of fans, Tom Seaver was the Mets: A charismatic superstar pitcher who led the franchise to the heights of glory. Despite that, the Hall of Famer had a strained relationship with the team that twice let him go under controversial circumstances. Veteran journalist Bill Madden joins us to discuss the remarkable life of the man called Tom Terrific.

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0:00.0	The one
0:02.0	The one side
0:04.0	I tell the me, I believe
0:05.0	The Giants
0:06.0	The Giants
0:08.0	The Pellant!
0:09.0	The Giants!
0:10.0	The Giants!
0:12.0	The Giants!
0:13.0	The Pellet!
0:14.0	The one constant through all the years, Ray,
0:15.0	has been baseball.
0:17.0	Oh, put me in cold.
0:22.0	I'm ready to play today.
0:41.3	Hey, everybody. me, I can be center of you. Hey everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:47.5	That's right, folks. You're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we
0:52.2	talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:55.5	Today we are joined by Bill Madden.
0:57.6	He's here to talk about his new biography of Tom Seaver, which was recently named a finalist
1:02.3	for the 2020 Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year.
1:07.5	We'll get to that in just a second.
1:09.8	First, though, I'd like to thank the following people for supporting baseball by the book on Patreon.
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