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title: Legendary Mets Pitcher Tom Seaver Passes Away at 75
description: Mets Hall of Fame Pitcher, Tom Seaver, passes away at 75.  Look back on Tom Terrific's career, as well as our favorite Seaver story; hidden rookie cards.
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# [Legendary Mets Pitcher Tom Seaver Passes Away at 75](https://blog.justcollect.com/legendary-mets-pitcher-tom-seaver-passes-away-at-75)

 Written by [Monte Jennings](https://blog.justcollect.com/author/monte-jennings) | Sep 3, 2020 1:03:59 AM

It is with a heavy heart that we learned that one of the greatest players in baseball history, Tom Seaver, has died at the age of 75.

Tom Seaver, first-ballot baseball Hall of Famer, and one of the best pitchers ever to toe the rubber has died tonight. [Reports](https://baseballhall.org/discover/hall-of-fame-pitcher-tom-seaver-passes-away) state Seaver succumbed to Lewy body dementia and COVID-19.  Let's look back at tom Seaver's stellar career on the mound, and reminisce about one of our favorite memorabilia finds.

**STATS**

- 311 wins, 18th all-time
- 3,640 strikeouts, 6th all-time
- 12 All-Star games
- 3 Cy Young Awards (1969, 1973, and 1975)
- NL Rookie of the Year (1967)
- World Series Champion (1967)
- No-Hitter June 16th, 1978

**Baseball Hall of Fame**

Inducted in 1992, Seaver held the record for highest percentage of votes at **98.84%!  **For comparison, Hank Aaron only recorded a voting percentage of 97.8%.  

**No-Hitter**

As the best pitcher in Mets' history, having made 10 all-star games in NY and wining all of his hardware there, it was with actually as a RED where Tom Seaver notched his only no-no.  After five one-hitters as a Met, Tom Terrific bested the Cardinals on June 16th 1978.

 

**Our Favorite Tom Seaver Story**

As a collectibles company, we relish in baseball card "finds", and one of our favorites involves the incredible Tom Terrific.

Around March of 2017, a local man contacted us about selling a collection of cards that included high-profile rookie cards.  The majority of the cards, including TOM SEAVER ROOKIES, were housed in a series of file cabinet drawers!

For the full story, check out our blog [here](https://www.justcollect.com/blog/storage-unit-file-cabinet-collection/). 

**Love that beautiful 1967 Topps card #581. **** **Not every day you find four iconic cards like these in a filing cabinet. 

 

**Baseball Hall of Fame Tribute**

Great job by the HOF for posting this today:

 

 

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