How I Would Pitch to Babe Ruth

by Tom Seaver

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Genres: Baseball, Sports

268 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox from 1967 to 1986. A longtime Met, Seaver played a significant role in their victory in the 1969 World Series over the Baltimore Orioles.

With the Mets, Seaver won the National League's (NL) Rookie of the Year Award in 1967, and won three NL Cy Young Awards as the league's best pitcher. He was a 12-time All-Star and ranks as the Mets' all-time leader in wins. During his MLB career, he compiled 311 wins, 3,640 strikeouts, 61 shutouts, and a 2.86 earned run average, and he threw a no-hitter in 1978.

In 1992, Seaver was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the highest percentage of votes ever recorded at the time. Along with Mike Piazza, he is one of two players wearing a New York Mets hat on his plaque in the Hall of Fame. Seaver's No. 41 was retired by the Mets in 1988, and New York City changed the address of Citi Field to 41 Seaver Way in 2019. Seaver is also a member of the New York Mets Hall of Fame and the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.

Reviews

[Nooilforpacifists · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quirky little book with a misleading title. It’s actually a collection of period essays about Tom Seaver’s favorite ball players, each introduced with by a page or two about what that player meant to Seaver. These intros are some of the most enjoyable parts of the book and very best of these are the ones where Seaver really does talk about how he would, or did—in the case of contemporary National League stars—pitch to them.

Not that the sportswriter stories aren’t themselves interesting. But almost everyone who reads this was led here by Posnanski’s wondrous book of Baseball’s best 100 players, which somewhat oversells the volume. It’s still a great read, at least for those of us who never mind hearing about Babe, Banks and Bench, Mantle, Mays and Musial, Gehrig and Gil (Hodges), and Wagner and Williams.

[Kerry Waller · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Seaver passed this year, Joe Posnanaski referenced this book in his article about Seaver and I thought it sounded interesting. It's just a series of quick intros by Seaver and then essays from some of the great sportwriters of yesterday about many of the all-time greats. Glad I read it, but you REALLY need to be a baseball fan to have any interest in it.

[Raymond Graf · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good book. I really learned how to pitch to good hitters and i felt i was on the mound pitching myself sometimes. I really liked it.