I found notes and a tape recording (and eventually something to play it on) and discovered it was fine. Seaver revealed how he became drawn to art, which probably explained how he came to curate the day’s program. “Did you see the Basil King over here?” he asked, and brought me to an oil painting of a southpaw (which is now listed as “From the Collection of Tom Seaver”). Such words when he was in his early 40s make Seaver’s death to complications of dementia and COVID-19 this week at 75 the cruelest of curves. Last month, Jordan talked from his Abbeville, S.C., home about his friendship with the baseball legend he has known as a man. I would have been the first one to put it in. New York Mets @ Shea Stadium mets press conference Tom Seaver talks to the press Neil Miller The New York Extra/TheNYExre.com copyright 2020 “His number is in the Rolodex (ask your parents). He got closer. He was The New York Met.

Jbreunig@scni.com; twitter.com/johnbreunig. For those who recognize baseball as art, Tom Seaver’s legend will only grow. It was Seaver who continued the conversation. I’ve written about joining other scribblers in taking swings against Seaver that afternoon, but the early innings were equally unique.

I kept jazzing him all the time that my fastball was better — and I was serious. He wasn’t just a pitcher, he was one of the game’s masters. It was his favorite player. I said, ‘I don't give a s*** what anybody says. Vincent happened to live in Greenwich and Fehr just over the state line in Rye Brook. I wrote him a letter, I emailed, I called...nothing. He was The New York Met. He wasn’t just a pitcher, he was one of the game’s masters. As other journalists lobbed questions during our tour, I waited for the final at-bat to grab Seaver one-on-one. It is a total memoir. The White Sox play the Yankees there, Aug. 2, 3, 4 and 5.

As I got older, he learned from me.

When the exhibit was at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Seaver stopped in while a guide was telling a group about the colors Andy Warhol selected for his screenprint titled “Tom Seaver.”. That’s always the way he was. We lived off our credit card. “Would you mind?” the tour guide snipped, before the audience members recognized Warhol’s inspiration. Nothing. But if there was something negative, I would have written it. Feeling roguish, Seaver walked right up to the artwork — drawing zero fan response. You don’t have to like baseball, only great prose. ’s interviews, essays, and features have appeared in an array of publications, including The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly, the A.V.

I criticized Tom a lot of times in the book for flaws, like being so egocentric he never asking how you were doing, because he was a famous athlete who was used to answering questions. But by that I mean he was enthusiastic about everything that he did. How do you see Tom now that you’re seventy-nine?

He was the same guy I met at seventy years old that I met when he was twenty-seven. When I was forty, it was all over. Seaver, then living in Greenwich, was promoting a roaming exhibit of baseball art at the New York Public Library. John Breunig is editorial page editor of the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time. Except I couldn’t hear. The latter is Jordan’s forte as a writer. My early stories for Sports Illustrated were all about pitching. And then he was going to fulfill his wine thing the way he wanted to do it. He was really fulfilled himself. Nancy [Seaver’s wife] said it was going to be private and she wasn't going to honor any requests, anyway. What I remember was the way Tom Seaver treated… Did you become a better writer by being around Tom? My childhood friend, and pitcher on the high school baseball team, was obsessed with Seaver. Two years before Seaver was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, he hosted one of my most surreal assignments. And besides: It was my book.

TOM SEAVER NOT SO "TERRIFIC" TOWARD ME. We never talked about that. “I’m interested in truth.”. His first book, Meeting the needs and unleashing the potential of older Americans through media, From Hang Time to Prime Time: Business, Entertainment, and the Birth of the Modern-Day NBA. She reviewed the show in a way I never could, but kept talking during lunch while I was trying to tune into the exchange between the hosts. So a major part of my life died with Tom Seaver Sunday night. And he got his vineyard [Seaver Vineyards on Diamond Mountain in Calistoga, Calif.] which he was so excited about — and now he can't enjoy it.

Every day, 8 o'clock in the morning, I went to the typewriter. I could feel myself turning red at the notion they heard her. “I was not much of a TV watcher and staying inside hotel rooms during the afternoons and working at night was not high on my agenda.”. But I knew I had to call him. His laudable goal was to draw children into the library. That's it. I wanted you to get as close as you could to knowing Tom Seaver as a person without having met him. When I was thirty, yes, I learned from him. And with that news, so went a major part of my life, a life that somehow always included … Everything about him, even his flaws were his boyishness. I also interviewed him when he hosted charity softball games to benefit the Greenwich Adult Day Care Center, and admired his perspective on respecting seniors: “Senior citizens are among the most overlooked people in society.”. Halberstam had just published his first baseball book, “Summer of ’49.”.



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