So some people, you know, did not believe that Tom Seaver was somehow eligible.
Can you imagine what a consortium led by Tom Seaver would do for the morale of the organization?
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"We feel pretty good in autism these days, " says consortium founder Joseph Buxbaum, director of Mount Sinai's Seaver Autism Center.
Tom Seaver received 98.83 - I believe it was - percent of the vote in 1992 and he has the highest percentage ever.
Jeannette Seaver, a publisher and author of four cookbooks, joined the group a decade ago because of her love for her native French food.
But Vivox is different because it is directly integrated into Facebook chat and in theory could be cross platform, said Rob Seaver, chief executive of the company.
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To this day, Tom Seaver still holds the record for highest percentage of the vote at 98.84% while Cal Ripken, Jr. has received the most votes at 537.
Mets legend Tom Seaver did crossword puzzles during his career.
Just look across town, where Tom Seaver still stands up as the ultimate object of Mets fans affections even though he played just a little more than half of his 20-year career there.
In 1985, a pair of milestones were achieved in major league baseball as Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox gained his 300th victory and Rod Carew of the California Angels got his 3, 000th hit.
Since K-rate is usually considered the single best predictor of how well a pitcher will age, from this angle the inevitable comparisons to past Mets greats like Dwight Gooden, Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver make sense.
Tom Seaver mowing down opponents during the '70s, then coming back to a packed house as a Cincinnati Red in August of 1977 as loyal fans cheered his victory over his old (and their own) team.
Not only should Jeter easily eclipse the 90% threshold, but he could join the likes of Tom Seaver (98.83%), Nolan Ryan (98.79%), Cal Ripken, Jr. (98.53%), Ty Cobb (98.23%), and George Brett (98.19%) as the only players to exceed 98% on a Hall of Fame ballot.
Fans over 35 or so will recall the Mets letting Seaver get away on a free agency compensation snafu after the 1983 season, just a year after he made a nostalgic return the club the previous spring (he was first traded to the Reds in 1977, then reacquired six year later).
This would leave him an even more effective pitcher than he already is not necessarily the peer of a young Gooden or Seaver, but quite comparable to David Cone, the last pitcher who made this kind of impact on his first run as a Mets starter, and one whose development in his mid-20s tracked this exact pattern.
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