LETTER OF PROTEST MEMORANDUM, Date: August 4,2019 To: Examining Attorney From: Emily Carlsen Attorney Advisor Office of the Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Examination Policy Subject: Letter of protest concerning US. Application Serial No, 88446264 for the mark TOM TERRIFIC A letter of protest filed before publication has been accepted because the evidence submitted by the protester is relevant and may support a reasonable ground for refusal appropriate in ex parte examination. TMEP §1715.02. Therefore, you must consider the following and make an independent determination whether to issue a requirement or refusal based on the objections raised in the letter of protest: ‘The possible reftsal based on the false suggestion ofa connection with Tom Seaver under ‘Trademark Act Section 2(a). 15 U.S.C. §1052(a). Please see the attached website evidence, NOTE: The acceptance of a letter of protest filed before publication is not a legal determination bby the USPTO of regisirabilty, nor i it meant to compromise the integrity of the ex parte examination process. It merely serves to bring the submitted evidence to the attention of the examining attorney, who determines whether a refusal or requirement should be raised or ultimately made final.‘Tom Tentifc: Seaver stikes out 19 | Newsday -haps:?www newsday:comspontsbaseballimetstom-tenriicseaver. lof 4 SPORTS / BASEBALL / METS Tom Terrific: Seaver strikes out 19 fam Seaver went into the Hall, 3f Fame with the highest first allot percentage of anyone in history iPhoto Credit: Getty Images By JOE GERGEN Updated May 24, 2012 12:35 PM FLUSHING - How Newsday covered the story on April 22, 1970, The pitching chart in Jerry Koosman's lap awaited only the final notation. There were already 95 strikes and 18 strikeouts recorded on the large white sheet, and Koosman, sitting in the Mets’ dugout was prepared to cosign the document to the baseball archives. One more strike by Tom Seaver would do it. The only obstacle remaining was Al Ferrara, the Padres’ concert pianist from Brooklyn and second- inning home run hitter. Ferrara was down to the end, He knew he was protecting a count of one ball, two strikes, and he knew the fastball was coming, "I knew | was going to get the heat? said Ferrara, “because he was really bringing it.” Seaver had knocked off a modern major-league record by fanning the previous batter, Clarence Gaston. It was his ninth consecutive strikeout, and now he had one last chance to become the second pitcher in history to strike out 19 men in annine-inning game. "after | got the 16th strikeout Seaver said, "I thought about Steve Carlton striking out 19 against Us last year and losing the game, 4-3. We only had a one-run lead and | knew | had to pitch to Ferrara in the ninth. | kept that thought until | got two strikes on Ferrara. Then | thought, ‘What the heck. I may never come this close again. | might as well go for it!"‘Tom Tentifc: Seaver stikes out 19 [Newsday naps: www.newsday.com sports aseballimetstom-tenriicseaver. 2of4 So Seaver went for it with his best pitch, the fastball. "I decided to challenge Ferrara instead of throwing a slider on the outside corner," he said. The pitch arrived at knee level. Ferrara swung and missed, shortstop Bud Harrelson leaped high in the air, and all the Mets on the bench got to their feet with the exception of Koosman. He sat in the corner wielding a pencil. "I marked every pitch’ he said, “even that last one. I didn’t miss one. It was the kind of game you'd rather watch than chart” ‘What Koosman charted and what 21,694 fans (14,197 paid) watched was an amazing exhibition, Seaver threw 81 fastballs, 65 for strikes. Seaver thew 19 curves, 11 for strikes. Seaver threw two changeups, both for strikes. Seaver threw 34 sliders, 18 for strikes. In all, Seaver threw 136 pitches, 96 for strikes. Subscribe to Newsday's sports newsletter Receive stories, photos and videos about your favorite New York teams plus national sports news and events. Email address Signup By clicking Sign up. you agree to our privacy policy ‘And Seaver became the first major leaguer to strike out 19 batters in the daytime, the first major leaguer to strike out more than eight batters in succession, the first major leaguer to pitch a two- hitter on Earth Day, and the first Met pitcher to beat the Padres this season. The score, for those interested, was 2-1. Seaver, who received his Cy Young Award before the game, started slowly, which is to say the leadoff batter, Jose Arcia, hit the ball. The next two batters struck out, but Ferrara led off the second with a towering home run over the leftfield fence. It did not seeem like vintage Seaver. "| didn't get it until late," he said. Ferrara recalled when Seaver got it. was Ferrara who struck out as the final batter in the sixth, and nine more strikeouts were to follow, including Ferrara again when it counted most.‘Tom Tentifc: Seaver stikes out 19 | Newsday Inups:/www.newsday-com sportsbaseballimetstom-tenriicseaver. Soft "He got into a groove,” Ferrara said. "He couldn't wait to get that ball and throw it at us. The guy deserved all the credit in the world because he was rushing it up there. He was about as fast as I've ever seen” ‘The shadows around home plate helped. Of course. Ferrara said so and Gaston agreed. Not that they were seeking excuses, mind you. "The last time up,” Ferrara said, “it was his best shot against my best shot." Ferrara’s homer had come off a Seaver fastball, "He challenged me and he won.” He won the battle and he won the wat, and he even managed to win the game. "He was fantastic, outstanding,” said Johnny Podres, the Padres’ minor-league pitching instructor who had anice seat by the dugout. That's the same Johnny Podres who once struck out eight batters in succession for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and who shared the old record with Max Surkont, Jim Maloney and Don Wilson. "There was no doubt in my mind he'd break that record Podres said. "He had perfect rhythm, and | don't think he'll ever throw that hard again. It's amazing as hard as he was throwing he was still hitting the spots. If you didn’t swing, it still was a strike.” Seaver was absolutely unhittable at the end. Only three batters made contact over the last five innings, and he required only 10 pitches to strike out the side in the ninth. "I might as well have played without a glove;’ said Harrelson, who didn't have a single chance at shortstop. Yet Seaver appeared curiously unexcited by the achievement. There was little drama in his voice, Unlike the night of July 9 last year when he pitched 8 1/3 innings of perfect ball against the Cubs. "The commotion wasn't as great,” he said. "You have to remember this was an expansion club and the Cubs were leading the league, and there were 59,000 people here for that game.” Yes, yes. But 19 strikeouts is 19 strikeouts. "I'm not blase,” he said. "I'm very happy about it. But 19 strikouts doesn't exhilarate me as much as a perfect game” The other Mets managed to take it in stride as well. Tommie Agee stood on the other side of the clubhouse facing Seaver after the commotion had ended, after the crowd had departed, after Seaver had finally climbed out of his uniform. "Were you throwing good today?" Agee inquired. 616119,2:25 PM‘Tom Tentifc: Seaver stikes out 19 [Newsday naps: www.newsday.com sports aseballimetstom-tenriicseaver. By JOE GERGEN Didn't find what you were looking for? ‘Try our new Search search newsday com Q 4of4 16119, 2.25PMees Ge 2823.2. Tom Seaver ‘Tom Seaver, n full George Thomas Seaver, so called Tom Tertfie or the Franchise, (born November 17,1944, Fresno, California, US), American professional baseball player and one of ‘the game's dominant pitchers between the late 1960s and early 1980s. During his 20-year career (1967-86), Seaver, a right-handed pitcher, posted a record of 3 @ aimeanaoa ‘wins and 205 losses with 22.86 earned run average (ERA). He won more than 20 games in a { ‘season five times, led the National League in victories and ERA on three occasions, and won hy the National League Cy Young Award three times. Seaver alzo lad the National Leagu in “ws strikeouts five times, and his 3640 career strikeouts rank sixth on the alltime list His 61 = WORLDWIDE SAVINGS ‘career shutouts put him in tie for seventh-best (with Nolan Ryan) in the history of maior TO JUMP ON league baseball, Seaver was the National League Rookie ofthe Year in 1967 and was selected | anne fr Fars Oy bly tothe AllStar team I2 times. ‘Seaver was the catalyst inthe transformation ofthe New York Mets franchiso from an ‘expansion team with a losing recordin its fist seven years of existence to Word Series ‘champions in 1969. In that season he won 25 games, lost 7, posted a 221 ERA, and won the Cy ‘Young Award, He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Eame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1992, ‘Tom Seaver LEARN MORE in these related Britannica articles: November 48907) 332 Nolan Ryan the fe ther to surpass Visor 3omnson'srooord of 8508 carer sents sth Rocke The Yea (967)Your FINGERTIPS ADDITIONAL MEDIA, Subscribe to Britannica Premium’ and get a PREe copy of our final Britannica — Yearbook chock fullof Interesting facts! | | MORE ABOUT Tom Seaver KEEP EXPLORING BRITANNICA,Muhammad Al Ce eee eee ee eeeGood Taste COLUMNS Tom Terrific James Laube says Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver pursued winemaking against long, ‘odds WINE SPECTATOR'S NEW YORK WINEMember ony Content EXPERIENCE ae Premium Subscr Join today and get immediate access to this article, and to our entire database of more than 386,000 wine ratings. 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Sth, 2011 0104 By Erin Fish areh'3, 2018 fy¥ags NEW YORK ~- For a decade in a Mets uniform and in his subsequent seasons, Tom Seaver provided countless big league memories. He will forever be known as one of the greatest to ever play the game in a ‘Mots uniform. From 1967 to 1986 Tom Terrific pitched for four teams including the Mets, Reds, White Sox land Red Sox, and ultimately he became the first player to be portrayed in a Mets hat on a Hall of Fame plaque. «Tom Seaver's career stats + Buy a Tom Seaver throwback jersey Lot's check out 10 moments from Tom Terrific that made him so special: 1. Near perfection (On July 8, 1969, Tom Terfc threw eight perfect innings against the Cubs, but with one out in the ninth, Chicago's Jimmy Qualls singled into left-center to break up Seaver’ perfect game bid. Following the ace's Inservice sve 10 ams 25030782 veerro “Toa Sewers 10 momes Cone-niuer, ue Mets Went OF LO WIN AneKr Us Yong Serles ChamnpIONsTIp Wat 1a, Seaver everMUAIY WOU pitch a no-hitter, But never with the Mets. His no-no came nearly a decade later (see below). Seaver's near perfect game 4u.sth. 1969-0120 2.19K's ‘Seaver had another complete game on April 22, 1970, but this time he tossed a 19-strikeout gem to tie the (Major League revurd (nue surpassed by Roger Clerners, Kerry Woud arid Max Sclierze) and sel a Major League record by fanning the last 10 batters consecutively to end the game. Seaver still holds the mark for consecutive strikeouts ina game. 3. 1969 World Series Game 4 Seaver threw 18 complete games in 1969, which is why a complete game in Game 4 of the World Sori ‘was not completely out ofthe ordinary. What was most impressive was that he went the distance and then ‘some, pitching 10 innings. Seaver gave up six hts, one earned run and struck out six in the Mets 2-1 walk- off win over the Orioles at Shea Stadium on Oct. 15, 1969. Insel comes seve op 10 moms 25030782ervans ‘Toa Sewers 10 moms Seaver whiffs Blair in 10th (ct. 15th, 1969 00:29 4, Return to Flushing Known as *The Midnight Massacre" to most Mets fans, June 15, 1977, is the dreadful night that the Mets traded Tom Seaver to Cincinnati for Pat Zachry, Doug Flynn, Steve Henderson and Dan Norman. Less than six years later, on April 5, 1983, Seaver walked to the mound on Opening Day, making hs return to [Now York in the Mets uniform. n true Tom Terrific fashion, he pitched six strong innings in a 2-0 win over the Phillies. Seaver returns on Opening Day Aart 1983 0038 5. Tom finds missing gem ‘Seaver had racked up five strikeout titles, three Cy Young Awards and a World Series title, but the no hitter was one achievernent that continued to elude him by 1978. But a series of near-misses ~ including a perfect game attempt through 25 outs in '69 -- became a distant memory on June 16, 1978, when ‘Seaver held the Cardinals hitless in a 4-0 victory for the Reds. Seaver recorded just three strikeouts but, carved up the St. Louis lineup regardless, recording 1-2-8 innings in seven of his nine frames on the ‘mound. Only four Redbirds reached base at all; three via walk and one on a throwing error by catcher Don Werner. Insel comes seve op 10 moms 25030782 veeamaos “ou Seaver | Sole for Amen Beal Research LOGIN VCONTENT/SAER MEMBERS-ONLY) ‘Tom Seaver George hommasSeaver ‘Born 11/17/ 1344 at Free CACUSA More From SABR ‘Stats: Bascal Reference tana/w basal ferenge comvbayerslsento ham) + Resushess (tudtmwreuoshestcrebawesetc/SPseaC01 ju) Corrections? Additions? Ifyou can help us improve this players biography, contact us malto-bionroject@sabr.ar) Tom Seaver This article was written by Maxwell Kates (/node/4011) 4,256. 755, 5,714, 511. 366, ‘As baseball has often been described as a game of numbers, fans, reporters, and students of the game would most certainly recognize the preceding list of significant digits. Through the 2006 season, these were the career accomplishments forever linked to the respective immortals Pete Rose (//sabr.ore/bioproj/person/89979ba5), Hank ‘Aaron, Nolan Ryan (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/4afs1zee), Cy Young (Usabr.org/biopro\/person/dae2fbéa), and Ty Cobb (Usabcorg/biopro)(person/75$1754a). To that list, another number should be added to commemorate a feat of equal important to longevity in base hits, home runs, strikeouts, wins, and batting average, 98.8. (On January 7, 1992, that was the percentage by which Tom Seaver was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. To that time, no player ever received a higher approval rating by the Baseball Writers Association of America, Few players were ever more connected as a “franchise” player than Tom Terrific with the New York Mets. No member of the team was as intricately associated with their meteoric rise from cellar dwellers to world champions, Seaver was an immediate success upon arriving in New York in 1967. His miracle season of 1969 was highlighted by the game of his career against the divisional rival Chicago Cubs. He continued to pitch brilliantly in the 1970s, fanning 10 consecutive Padres in a game, collecting 200 strikeouts for nine straight seasons, and becoming the first right-hander win three Cy Young Award Ins xeon ea 8d wasaran “Tom Sewer! Sve for nen Bal Reeth (Usabr.org/category/awards.and-honors/cy-young-award)s, In 1977 an ugly contract squabble led to what became known as the Midnight Massacre, a trade to the Cincinnati Reds that devastated the Mets and drove countless fans away from Shea Stadium (U/sabr.ore/bioproj/park/476675). After five years of exile in the Queen City, Seaver returned to Queens in 1983. Although he wore socks of a different color scheme toward the end of his career, he saved his final crowning achievement for the New York fans to enjoy. George Thomas Seaver was born on November 17, 1944, in Fresno, California. His mother, Betty, was, a homemaker and his father, Charles, was an executive with the Bonner Packing Company, which harvested and shipped raisins to all corners of the country. The Seavers were an athletically minded family. Charles had been a Walker Cup golfer in his youth, while swimming, volleyball, and surfing were also represented in the family. Seaver joined the North Rotary team in the Fresno Little League at the age of 9 as a pitcher and outfielder. Within three years, he had pitched a perfect game while batting a robust .540. Later, Seaver pitched for Fresno High, a school that had already graduated pitching luminaries Jim Maloney (Usabr.org/biopro|/person/de00e781), Dick Ellsworth (//sabr.ore/bioproj/person/34a59b3d), and Dick ‘Selma (/sabrorg/bioproj/person/d413f8ad). “Even ...n high school, Tom was a thinking pitcher,” remembered Selma, later a teammate of Seaver’s on the Mets. “He knew how to set up a hitter by working the corners of the plate and the batter would usually pop the ball... for an easy out." After graduating from high school in 1962, Seaver registered at Fresno City College while working in the raisin trade. While a student, he also put in training time in the Marines. Scouts had begun to notive his pitching repertoire afer his second year, wher he won 11 cunsecutive garmes while setting numerous school strikeout records. So did Rod Dedeaux (//sabsrorg/bioproj/person/afesofbs), the legendary baseball coach who led the University of Southern California to 11 College World Series titles. Dedeaux asked Seaver to join the Trojans for his junior year. To prove his reputation and earn his scholarship, Seaver went to Alaska to pitch for the semiprofessional Goldpanners. AC USC in 1965, Seaver went 10 2, striking out 100 batters in 100 innings. Although only one ‘organization scouted Seaver in 1965, the Atlanta Braves wasted no time the following year, drafting him in January and signing him a month later, The Braves had been Seaver's team of choice growing up in Fresno. Hank Aaron was his hero, and as he told interviewer Marty Appel, "| loved their uniforms, and | loved their hitters ... Aaron, Eddie Mathews (Usabrorg/search/node/Fddie¥s20Mathews), joe Adcock (U/sabr.org/blopro|/person/0999384d). But as much as he loved the tomahawk, Seaver never wore it for an inning of his professional career. Major-league rules prevented any organization from signing a college player while his season was in progress. Although Seaver had yet to pitch in 1966, the USC season was under way when the Braves signed their right-handed prospect. Commissioner William Eckert (Usabrorg/bioproj/gerson/4691515d) voided Seaver's contract with the Braves on March 2. if other teams matched Atlanta's offer of $51,500, they would participate in a lottery for Seaver’s services. Three teams — the Indians, the Phillies, and the Mets — stepped forward with contractual offers. The lottery was conducted on April 3 as each organization had its name thrown into a hat. Would Seaver join Sam McDowell (/sabr.org/bloproj/person/OcScecef) and Sonny Siebert (Wsabr.org/bioprol/person/9e9f177f in Cleveland's rotation? Would he emerge as Philadelphia's third Inpseonp gpa aba maman “Tom Seer Sei for Amer Bsa Resch starter behind Jim Bunning (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/bcacaaS9) and Chris Short (Usabc.org/bioproj/person/95b58f3f)? Neither. The winning paper selected belonged to the losingest team in baseball, the Mets. Seaver earned a bonus contract worth $10,000 more than the Braves’ offer, and began his professional career with Jacksonville. Pitching for the Mets’ top farm club, Seaver went 12-12, throwing four shutouts and fanning 188 International League hitters. He married his high-school sweetheart, the former Nancy Lynn Mcintyre, on June 6, Jacksonville manager Solly Hemus (Usabr.org/bioproj/gerson/76e28270) was overwhelmed by his pupil's talent and poise, insisting that his “35-year-old head attached to a 21-year-old body” was ready for prime time.3 Earl Weaver (Wsabr.org/bioproj/person/Ocfc37e3), then managing the Orioles’ affiliate at Rochester, agreed with Hemus from the visiting dugout: “It was apparent in Tom Seaver’s pro debut that he was ready for the ‘majors. He had an excellent fastball and slider and he put them precisely where he wanted to, in and ‘out on the black of the plate, mostly knee-high. After Jacksonville beat us, | phoned (general manager] Harry Dalton (//sabrorg/bioproj/person/0e17944e) and said that Seaver was going to be sensational and the Orioles could give up a piece of the franchise and do well to get him. Having never won more than 66 games or finished higher than in ninth place since coming into existence in 1962, the New York Mets underwent a 19-player overhaul under new general manager Bing Devine (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/3bbe5d20). One of the new faces in New York in 1967, true to Hemus's prediction, was Tom Seaver. His baptism into the major leagues for manager Wes Westrum ((/sabr.ore/bioproj/person/52984936) occurred on the second day of the season, April 13, as he yielded six hits to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 5% innings with eight strikeouts and four walks. Seaver gave up just two runs as the Mets won, 3-2, but Chuck Estrada (Usabcorgéblopro|/person/sct76pSe) was the winning pitcher. By July Seaver had amassed a record of 6 4.with a 2.60 ERA, commanding sufficient respect to merit a spot on the National League All-Star team. This midsummer classic, played at Anaheim Stadium, was deadlocked after 14 innings. After Tony Perez (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/1c4baf33) homered to give the senior circuit a2 1 lead, ‘manager Walter Alston (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/cfc65169) summoned Seaver to face the American League in the bottom of the 15th. On that night, a nationally televised audience was introduced to a rookie with a 35-year-old head; Seaver got Tony Conigliaro (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/S2ad9113) to fly out before walking eventual Triple Crown (W/sabr.org/category/achievements/triple-crown- winners) winner Carl Vastrzemski (/sabr.org/bioproj/person/a71e9d7f. After Bill Freehan Wsabr.org/bioproj/person/b315d9b7) flied out, Seaver ended the game by striking out Ken Berry. (Wsabr.org/bioproj/person/ea0b6388)on a high fastball. Tom Terrific was bound for greatness. Seaver rewrote the Mets’ pitching record book in 1967. It wasn't hard given the team he was on 10th and last in the National League with 60 victories and 101 defeats, but he has since held his grip in ‘most categories. His 16 victories, 18 complete games, 170 strikeouts, and 2.76 ERA in 1967 set new ‘marks for the club. He also became the first Met in history to earn the National League Rookie of the Year Award (//sabr.org/category/awards-and-honors/rookie-year), Even the normally reticent Hank ‘Aaron expressed his admiration for Seaver. “You've got a nice pitch, kid,” he told Seaver. “Good fastball, nice curve.’5 As for Bill Bartholomay (//sabr.org/nade/34974), whose Braves were 0-4 against Seaver in 1967, all he could muster in light of the contract nullification was “I get sick every time | watch him pitch."6 Imps xpionpeso4aad smeranis “Tom Seer Sei for Amer Bal Resch ‘As Mets broadcaster Howie Rose later reminisced to author Bruce Markusen, Seaver brought a sense of hope that was absent from previous Mets teams, Before he joined the Mets, Rose said, “There was this inescapable culture of losing, and at least among their fans, a growing sense of losing was going to be something permanent.” He added, "People who watched [Seaver] as a rookie got the sense that they had finally developed a player who was capable of doing special things, and therefore capable of helping the Mets achieve some pretty good thing of their own along the way."7 Seaver did not fall prey to the sophomore jinx in 1968, winning 14, fanning 205, and committing only fone error all season. He could sense that greatness was around the corner for the Mets: "We pass over 1968 too quickly,” Rose said. “That was the season the executives were getting the pieces together... getting Tommie Agee ((/sabt.ore/bioproj/person/b029a7d7) to play center field, getting Jerry Grote (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/a68fp617) along as the catcher, getting the pitching staff together. They could see there was a Seaver, Ryan, Jerry Koosman (Usabrorglbionroj(person/26133a34), Grote, Harrelson, and getting Gil Hodges (Wsabr.org/biopro|/persor/¢8022025)."8 Ifthe Mets were destined for immortality in 1969, it was certainly not evident fram their Opening Day performance on April 8. Broadcaster Ralph Kiner (/sabr.org/bioproj/person/b6Saaec9) remembered Seaver “getting knocked out of the box" by the expansion Montreal Expos, who defeated the Mets, 11- 10. The ensuing weeks were no kinder to the Mets. Injuries, slumps, erratic defensive play, and a lack of experience all prevented them from advancing beyond the second division of the National League East. In May, Hodges even told reporter Jack Lang that his hitters “looked like wooden soldiers." (On May 21 in Atlanta, Seaver shut out the Braves to improve his record to 6-2. The Mets, meanwhile, evened their record al 18-18, Tu Seaver (he milestone was nu Cause for celebration. He defined the 500 mark as “neither here nor there” and said that his teammates’ embrace of mediocrity “isn't going to get us very close to a pennant."10 As Ralph Kiner chronicled in his 2005 memoir, Seaver’s role as a ‘motivator was crucial for the Mets’ renaissance in 1969. “Tom Seaver was the driving force behind the players, always pushing the team to be better than they were, never letting them settle,” Kiner reminisced.11 He might not have remembered the legacy he imprinted on Seaver at a far younger age. At the Bing Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament, Charles Seaver approached Kiner and said he would appreciate an autograph for his son, who aspired to become a baseball player. The retired Pirates outfielder gladly signed a school photograph: “To Tom, work hard and good luck, Ralph Kiner.” Diligence and luck, along with talent, were essential ingredients in the Mets’ 11-game winning streak in late May and early June. For every player, there was a different highlight that augmented their confidence, but for Seaver, it was an extra-inning clutch hit to win the contest an June 4 in Los Angeles. “We were in a scoreless game until the 15th inning, Then Wayne Garrett (Wsabr.org/bioproj/person/a6453512) hit a ball up the middle with [Agee] on second, There was going to be a close play at the plate. Willie Davis /sabr.org/bioproj/person/<689b1b0) came charging in and the ball was under his glove. The winning run scored. There was real electricity. remember going into the clubhouse and making eye contact with Grote,” Seaver said. He described the experience as “the last ounce that tipped me over into believing we could win."12 Inpseonp gpa aba anerans “Tom Seer Sei for Amero Bal Resch By now, the Mets were in second place behind the Chicago Cubs. When he defeated the Padres on June 14, Seaver improved his record to 10-3. The Mets’ mound excellence behind Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Don Cardwell (/sabr.org/bioproj/nerson/2dadae?a), and rookie Gary Gentry (Wsabr.org/bioproj/person/72a877e1) was renowned throughout the league. Seaver claimed that a renewed collective excellence in the field was equally important, “especially up the middle with Grote, Harrelson, and Ken Boswell (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/2b917642), and Agee in center field,"13 The Mets upgraded their offense on June 15 when they acquired Donn Clendenon (Wsabr.org/bioproj/person/d9b9b223) in a trade from Montreal. A veteran first baseman who studied law in the offseason, the sardonic Clendenon complemented the more cheerful Ed Charles (Usabrorg/bioproj/gerson/Sfb2e85c)across the diamond. In a tense racial period the year after the assassination of Martin Luther King, both clubhouse leaders on the Mets were African Americans. In Seaver's estimation, that hardly seemed to matter to his teammates, black or white. With sterling pitching and defense, solid offense, a hardnosed manager, clubhouse chemistry, and confident players, the Mets had no reason to look back. Only the Cubs stood in their way of a division title. All of these factors set the stage for what was arguably the strongest game Seaver ever pitched. It certainly is the best-remembered Seaver game, even more than his no-hitter pitched for Cincinnati in 1978 (U/sabr.org/gamesproj/game/june-16-1978-tom-terrific-seaver-tosses-only-no-hitter). The Cubs, leading the division by four games, were visiting the Mets at Shea Stadium on July 8, 1969. Among the 59,083 exuberant spectators packed into the stands was Charles Seaver, who had flown from California on business. The younger Seaver had not even been certain he could pitch that evening due to a sore shoulder, but his pitches early on surpassed even his own perfectionist standards. While the Mets amassed a 3-0 lead in the third inning, no Chicago batsman even reached base. At this point, pitching coach Rube Walker (//sabr.org/blaproj/person/cast7at3) broke one of baseball's cardinal rules, turning to Hodges and confiding, “Gil, | see something special out there. He's razor sharp. He's going to throw a no-hitter tonight."14, “Emotionally, 1was fully aware of what was going on,” remembered Seaver. "I came to bat and got this incredible standing ovation [in the sixth inning]. felt as if| was almost levitating."15 It mattered not that Seaver struck out. Eighteen Cubs batters had strade to the plate. Eighteen returned disappointed to the dugout. The Flushing faithful were glued to the edges of their seats both at Shea and on WOR- Vas Seaver continued to baffle the Cubs. Don Kessinger (//sabr.org/bioproj/persan/690efc75) led off the seventh inning by flying out to left. Glenn Beckert (//sabr_org/bioproj/person/97ff644b) flied out the opposite way before Billy Williams (//sabr.org/bioproj/person/cede08ff) ended the inning with a groundout to third base. Seaver was equally masterful in the eighth inning, After Bon Santo. (Usabtorg/bioproj/person/920a36ba) flied out to center field, Tom Terrific fanned Ernie Banks (Usabcorgibionroj/nerson/bBafeeée) and AL Spansler (U/sabr.org/bionroj{nerson/e2e0cede) for his ‘oth and 1 1th strikeouts of the night. Twenty-four up, 24 down, Shea Stadium, courtesy of Jim Bunning in 1964, had been the site of the first National League perfect game since 1888, Now it seemed like the perfect place for a repeat as Seaver took the mound for the top of the ninth, The inning began with a gasp as Randy Hundley (Wsabc.org/bioproj/person/d83150d3) led off with a line drive to the pitcher's mound, Seaver trapped itand tossed Hundley out at first base. Enter Jim Qualis (Usabr.org/bioproj/nersan/asfoddb4), Inpseonp gpa aba smervans Waning Up ine Viney, To Tie ‘The New York ines Ehe New York Fimes ARCHIVES | 2005 Warming Up in the Vineyard, Tom Terrific ByERIC ASIMOV DEC. 28, 2.005 CALISTOGA, Calif. - WITH a cup of hot coffee, Tom Seaver took an early morning, stroll recently through his secluded three-acre vineyard on Diamond Mountain just south of this rustic Napa Valley town. As he stared at the cabernet sauvignon vines, which had just been harvested of grapes the day before, he said, a sense of sadness and loss eame over hi n. "Tewas the weirdest feeling, like postpartum depression ~ I'd never had that feeling before," he said, looking at leaves now yellowing in the cool air. "There are 3,980 plants, and I've named every one of them.” Almost 40 years have passed since Mr. Seaver first took the mound at Shea Stadium, back when the Mets were baseball's hapless losers. He led them to their first World Series vietory in 1969 and won 311 games in his 20-year Hall of Fame career. Today, he's a little over his playing weight and more weathered in the face. ‘The boyish Tom Terrific features are still there, but he wears a pair of pruning shears on his belt rather than a glove on his hand. ‘The intensity that fueled him on the mound now is focused on his hillside vineyard, 800 feet above the valley floor and framed by towering redwoods and the twisted, sculptural lines of manzanita trees. The 2005 harvest, to be released in three years, is the first vintage of what will, despite his reluctance, be called Seaver. "Lwanted to keep my name off of it, so the wine could make its own name," Mr. Seaver recalled. "My daughter said, 'Dad, you're not living forever. Your grandchildren will be running it one day. You're putting your name on it!" ‘Tom Seaver is not the first celebrity to be drawn to the wine business. Some are born weg | Subscibe to The New York Times. Subscriber login nse nts com 05 ning aring mp in-be vieyt- om eich uservans Waning Up ine Viney, To Tie ‘The New York ines Others, like Francis Ford Coppola, the director, and Greg Norman, the golfer, are wine-loving entrepreneurs who have become serious businessmen. Many, like Carlos Santana or Joe Montana, lend their name or marketing prowess to raise money for charities. And some are simply inscrutable, like Bob Dylan, who has signed his name without explanation to Planet Waves, a red wine made by Le Terrazze in the Marche region of Italy. But few take as much pleasure as Mr. Seaver in the gritty, callous-building, hands-on labor of raising grapes. With only three aeres planted, Seaver wine will be a small business, which fits with the desire of its proprietor. Mr. Seaver predicts the first vintage will yield about 450 cases -- 5,400 bottles the equivalent of one of the smallest of Napa's cult wineries. While plans for distributing the wine have not yet solidified, Mr. Seaver is already putting together a mailing list of potential buyers who he thinks will appreciate his efforts (GTS Vineyards, Box 888, Calistoga, Calif. 94515). "Thad a guy in New Jersey say, Il take everything you have,'" he said. "That's not why I'm doing this. It's part of sharing the joy of ereation. ‘The glamour of the wine business, the slick image-building that has made Napa Valley a synonym for a pseudo-Mediterranean Eden known as "the good life," holds little interest for him. For Mr. Seaver and his wife, Nancy, the idea of going out for a ‘meal means not being seen at French Laundry but rather grabbing a sandwich in Calistoga with his dogs or maybe driving the pickup down to St. Helena for breakfast at Gillwoods. "must confess, my heart lies in the vineyard,” he said. "This is where the physical stuff is.” Not that the Seavers are rubes or hermits. They live in a sleek contemporary house that practically fades into the hillside, designed by Kenneth Kao, a Boston architect. Its ruddy steel posts and copper roof mimic the eolor of the manzanita trees and redwoods, while the beige shoterete walls seem to merge with the stony white of the soil. Inside, antiquities and colonial woodworks coexist happily Bauhaus furniture and modern art. There's a wine cellar, of course, a vegetable garden and a greenhouse for Nancy, who is a serious gardener. But for sheer take- weg | Subscribe to The New York Times. Subscriber login apie tines com/005712/28ningwamng pins vneyn-om eichervans Waning Up ine Viney, To Tie ‘The New York ines the northern Napa Valley, with Mount St. Helena looming in the distance, and Three Palms Vineyard down below. When the Seavers first saw the land in 1998, it was 115 acres of trees and brush. "Ifyou stood here, you couldn't see 15 feet,” he said, standing behind the house, overlooking a terraced garden. "We never knew. The view exploded on us.” Seaver grew up in Fresno, Calif,, in the heart of the Central Valley, where his father was in the raisin business. Once, at the height of his baseball career, his brother-in-law asked him what he was going to do when it was all over. "Off the top of my head, I said, 'T want to go back to California and raise grapes,’ " he said. "I didn't know that much about it, except that's what I wanted to do.” ‘That dream waited until their two daughters, Sarah and Annie, were out of college and the Seavers were ready to leave the renovated barn in Greenwich, Conn., where they had lived for 30 years. They settled on the appropriately named Diamond Mountain, a district known best for the tannic, concentrated cabernet sauvignons produced by Diamond Creek Vineyards. Mr. Seaver had originally wanted to plant a vineyard close to his house, but ‘Nancy preferred that the trucks and other vineyard equipment be out of sight. So he bought a couple of tree-covered slopes that face south and southeast, exactly the sort ofland that winemakers dream about. On the recommendation of Rusty Staub, his former teammate and a longtime wine lover, Mr. Seaver hired Jim Barbour as his vineyard manager. "He said, 'How the hell did you find this? This is what people are searching all over for," Mr. Seaver recalled about Mr. Barbour's reaction to the vineyards location. "It's pure luck that my wife sai He said he is not in the business for the money. He will not say what his investment has been other than that it will be seven years from the initial planting, before the first bottle of wine is sold. But if the wine is good and people are willing to pay, say, $60 or more a bottle, a business like this can certainly be profitable. Mr. Seaver discovered wine in his college days at the University of Southern California. But what really sparked his interest, he said, was a series of bicycle trips he and Nancy took in the off-seasons through the great wine areas of France and Italy, Ask him to name a memorable bottle and he says: "We were riding in weg | Subscibe to The New York Times. Subscriber login apie tines com/005712/28ningwamng pins vneyn-om eichervans Waning Up ine Viney, To Tie ‘The New York ines just small production. You buy a couple of bottles, put it in your bag and have it with dinner that night. There's nothing like it." He allows that he particularly likes zinfandel. In faet, when it came time to plant his vineyard, he imagined it would be with zinfandel, at least until he raised the question with Mr. Barbour, who gently reminded him that Diamond Mountain was cabernet country. "Lwanted to do a zin, and Jim said, 'You have a place like this, you don’t grow zin!' I said, "Yes, sir!'" The cabernet vines were all planted by 2002, and Mr. Seaver has been out there cach step of the way, learning from the vineyard workers the delicate arts of pruning and trellising. "step by step, the learning process has fascinated me,” he said. "I walk with them and it's like being in a classroom." Mr. Seaver hired a winemaker, Thomas Brown, who also makes Outpost zinfandels, wines that Mr. Seaver has long admired. Mr. Brown will make the wine using the Outpost facilities. It didn't hurt that Mr. Brown's great-uncle isBobby Richardson, who used to play second base for the Yankees. As Mr. Seaver walks his property he seems to know every inch of terrain. He's ‘mentally mapped the location of each tree that's caught his faney, marveling at the way a manzanita has gnarled and arced its way out of the shadow of a Douglas fir, or at the aroma of a bay tree. "You're in awe of the stuff,” he said. "You realize how small you are, and in the sense of time, too.” If baseball brings out the little kid in a man, so apparently, do trees and vineyards. "The day he found this property he got poison oak climbing trees to see the vista," Rusty Staub said. "He's so locked into that vineyard. It was really a genius thing on his part.” Mr. Brown characterizes the wine, which has only recently completed its initial fermentation, as extreme. "It's a wine that seems to have a lot of baby fat," he said. “It’s super, super dark and just very, very dense." Most likely, he said, the 2005 will not be bottled until the spring of 2007 and not released for another year after that. Mr. Seaver said the only direction he's given Mr. Barbour and Mr. Brown is to weg | Subscibe to The New York Times. Subscriber login apie tines com/005712/28ningwamng pins vneyn-om eichervans Waning Up ine Viney, To Tie ‘The New York ines don't care about making the best wine in the world,” he said. "I just want to make the best wine we ean from that vineyard." ‘The TimesMachine archive viewer is a subseriber-only feature. We are continually improving the quality of our text archives. Please send feedback, error reports, and suggestions to archive_feedback@nytimes.com. Aversion ofthis article appears in print on December 28, 2005, on Page F00001 ofthe National edition with the headline: Warming Up in the Vineyard, Tom Terrific. (©2019 The New York Times Company weg | Subscribe to The New York Times. 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He epitomized the perfectly balanced pitcher: power and control, brains and brawn, fastball and slider, talent and work ethic, strong arm and strong legs, consistency and durability, individual success and team triumph. He was handsome, dignified, quotable, a fierce competitor and a respected gentleman, the beau ideal sports hero. Other star athletes got bachelor pads in Manhattan; Seaver lived in Greenwich, Conn. He was often compared to Christy Mathewson, the dashing early-2oth-century New York Giants icon of brains, sportsmanship, and integrity. Like Matty, who came from Factoryville, Pa., Seaver seemed a born New York sophisticate despite an un-cosmopolitan upbringing in 1950s Fresno, Calif. Seaver made himself into a great pitcher. A skinny teen, he filled into a man’s body in the Marines and working in his father’s raisin factory. Starting at Fresno City College, he impressed coaches enough to transfer to Rod Dedeaux’s storied baseball program at the University of Southern California. Behind the seamless consistency of Seaver’s games and seasons were an intense competitive drive, relentless sweat, and an obsessive, scientific study of pitching: the mechanics of throwing, the art of keeping batters off-balance, the business of knowing everyone’s weaknesses. After his playing career, he became a broadcaster and expert-at-large on pitching. Into his seventies, Seaver was apt to spend long hours working in his vineyard, and not because he needed the money. It’s who he is. have 4 free article nin) > Ips oneview som inagsne201904R om sesversepreiy-alest cher 2ervans Tea Sener The Pest Bae Piste ational Revew until 2016. The numbers show why. Seaver is the only pitcher since 1920 to win 300 games with a career earned-run average (ERA) below 3.00. He led the league multiple times in major categories, including wins, ERA, and strikeouts, won 20 games five times, and threw a no-hitter. He was third on the all-time strikeout list when he retired. Seaver was a master of the “high-quality start,” throwing seven innings or more and allowing two runs or fewer: He did it 295 times in his career, a total topped by only two other pitchers since 1920. In 1973, he had 26 high-quality starts out of 36; only Sandy Koufax and Denny McLain have had more in a season since 1921. On April 22, 1970, against the San Diego Padres, Seaver became the only pitcher ever to strike out ten consecutive batters. That’s only half the story: They were the last ten batters of the game, when a pitcher is supposed to be tiring. Five of those ten Padres hitters struck out looking, bats still on their shoulders. The book on Seaver was always that you had to get to him early or he'd only get stronger; his career ERA was 3.75 in the first inning but below 3.00 every inning after that, and 1.67 in extra innings. Seaver worked hard, but he worked smart: He was the first pitching star to insist on four days’ rest between starts. The years from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s were a golden age of starting pitchers, the last generation of hurlers expected to finish what they started. Four other pitchers of Seaver’s generation won 300 games; Seaver went 27-14 against them head-to-head, including 11-3 in 17 matchups with Steve Carlton, and 7-4 against Don Sutton. Seaver was the best of them all, the best pitcher to debut between Lefty Grove in 1995 and his own protégé Roger Clemens in 1984. In those years, nobody as good as Seaver was also as consistent and durable. Koufax and Bob Gibson burned hotter at their peaks, but both took years to find the strike zone, and Koufax retired at 30. From 1967 to 1978, Seaver threw more have 4 free article nin) > Ips oneview com ign 2019 005m savers prety anced ihe 6ervans Tea Sener The Pest Bae Piste ational Revew and he struck out at least 196 batters eleven years in a row. Between 1967 and 1981, he never had a losing record despite pitching for many low-scoring teams. Seaver often labored with little help from his hitters. In the first decade of his career, his ERA in 64 no-decisions was 2.97. In the four years from 1969 to 1972, he won 20 games in which his teams scored just one or two runs. Sophisticated modern analytics agree that Seaver was the greatest pitcher between Grove and Clemens. His careei ins above replacement” total places him an easy first in those years, ahead of Phil Niekro, Bert Blyleven, Gaylord Perry, and Warren Spahn. Over his best seven seasons, he places first, ahead of Spahn, Gibson, Niekro, and Blyleven. The ERA+, which adjusts earned-run average by ballpark and era, rates Seaver 27 percent better than average, the best by any pitcher in that era with 300 wins or 4,000 innings pitched. It was Seaver's place in the history of the New York Mets that earned him his other nickname: “the Franchise.” Like many expansion teams, the Mets were awful. But no expansion team has been as relentlessly, embarrassingly dreadful as the 1962-67 Mets, averaging 108 losses a year for six years and finishing last ina ten-team league five times while sharing a city with the hallowed Yankees. Arriving fully formed in 1967 after ju: California golden boy never had a losing record at any point in his rookie year and never looked back. The Mets finished ninth again in 1968 but added more year in the minor leagues, the arms that year and the next: Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry, Nolan Ryan, and Tug McGraw. No other expansion team had yet played in October, but the Mets shocked the world in 1969, rocketing to 100 wins and beating the mighty Orioles in the World Series. Seaver, their undisputed star, won 25 games. Like Apollo 11 that summer, he had defied doubters to take Mets fans where none had gone before. have 4 free article nin) > Ips oneview som inagsne201904R om sesversepreiy-alest cher aervans Tea Sener The Pest Bae Piste ational Revew that won the division after being in last place on August 31, he felled the vaunted Cincinnati Reds — the Big Red Machine — in the playoffs and came within a game of beating an Oakland A’s dynasty smack in the middle of their three straight championships. In four postseason starts, Seaver allowed just eight runs and struck out 35 batters. How much did Seaver matter to his Mets teams? The Mets were 227-168 in the games he pitched, a 93-win pace over a 162-game season. In the games he didn’t pitch, the team was 1,271-1,829, a 96-loss pace. The Yankees were the ultimate team of dynasties, and the Brooklyn Dodgers had been the inches-away team of “wait till next year.” Mets fandom was different: a kind of religious experience, an understanding that years in the wilderness would occasionally yield a lightning strike of greatness and joy. Seaver didn’t make the Mets cool or swaggering — nobody could — but he gave the team’s fans a gift of hope that never ran dry. As McGraw’s motto for the 1973 team had it: “You Gotta Believe.” Miracles are paid for in suffering and loss. In 1972, Seaver lost his manager and mentor, Gil Hodges (a Marine and the archetypical strong, silent type), toa spring-training heart attack at 47. In 1977, salary disputes and a vicious press campaign by New York Daily News writer Dick Young drove Seaver to demand atrade, and he said a tearful farewell to Queens on June 15, a day that still lives in infamy among Mets fans. Reclaimed in 1983 after his only bad year, Seaver outdueled Carlton on Opening Day and reestablished himself as a wily veteran, only to be left unprotected in the off-season. Snagged by the White Sox, Seaver missed the Mets revival that started in 1984. In 1986, injuries robbed him of a World Series coda for the Red Sox against the Mets. He practiced for a comeback when the Mets needed healthy arms in 1987, but the magic was gone, and Seaver was too proud to be less than Tom Terrific. In 2008, he helped say farewell to Shea Stadium, the site of his greatest triumphs. have 4 free article nin) > Ips oneview com ign 2019 005m savers prety anced ihe seervans Tea Sener The Pest Bae Piste ational Revew fear premature dementia. Now, he greets the slow twilight. Mets fans are petitioning for a statue in his honor at Citi Field, Shea’s replacement. 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