» July 8, 1967: At Shea, Tom Seaver pitches the Mets to a 3–2 win over the Braves. An odd play occurs when Bud Harrelson's looper over 3B is touched by a fan before Rico Carty can field it, and Harrelson is awarded a ground-rule single.

» November 20, 1967: Mets P Tom Seaver (16-12) is named National League Rookie of the Year.

» July 9, 1968: Appropriately, pitching dominates the All-Star Game. Willie Mays, playing in place of injured Pete Rose, tallies an unearned run in the first inning against American League starter Luis Tiant to complete the scoring for the day—the first All-Star effort to end 1–0. Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Ron Reed, and Jerry Koosman hold the AL to three hits.

» May 21, 1969: Tom Seaver blanks the Braves 5–0 to even the Mets' record at 18–18.

» June 24, 1969: Richie Allen is fined $2,500 and suspended indefinitely when he fails to appear for the Phillies twi-night doubleheader game with the Mets. Allen had gone to New Jersey in the morning to see a horse race and got caught in traffic trying to return. He will stay suspended until July 20. Allen picked up a $1000 fine in May when, for two straight days, he reportedly arrived at the ballpark after the game had started. Without Allen, the Phils drop a pair, 2–1 and 5–0. Larry Hisle's homer in the opener off Tom Seaver is the only Phils score. Jim McAndrew is the winner in the nitecap, allowing two hits in eight innings.

» July 9, 1969: With one out in the 9th, Chicago's Jimmy Qualls bloops a single to left-CF, the only blemish on Tom Seaver's 4–0 near-perfect win before a record crowd (59,083) at Shea Stadium.

» July 14, 1969: At Wrigley, the Cubs top the Mets 1–0 to give Bill Hands (11–7) the win over Tom Seaver (14–4). Billy Williams singles home the winner, boosting the Cubs lead to five 1/2 games. After the last out, Ron Santo jumps up and clicks his heels, igniting a roar from the crowd. The Mets think it's bush.

» July 15, 1969: The Mets rough up Fergie Jenkins for three home runs, including Al Weis's 2nd in two days, to beat the Cubs 9–5. The Cubs now lead New York by three 1/2 games. At the end of the game Tom Seaver jumps out of the dugout and clicks his heels several times. The Mets will win tomorrow as well.

» September 9, 1969: With a 3–2 win, Tom Seaver hands Chicago its 6th straight loss, giving the Mets a sweep of two games. New York now trails the Cubs by one-half game.

» September 22, 1969: Tom Seaver, who has not lost since early August, tops the Cardinals' Nelson Briles for a 3–1 victory. In game 2, Buddy Harrelson singles off Bob Gibson in the 11th inning to give the Mets a 3–2 win. With the Cubs losing to Montreal 7–3, the Mets now lead the National League East by six games with six to play.

» October 4, 1969: The first League Championship Series begin in Atlanta and Baltimore. New York survives home runs by Hank Aaron and Tony Gonzalez off Tom Seaver and scores five runs off Phil Niekro in the 8th to coast home 9–5. Paul Blair's 12th-inning squeeze bunt gives the Orioles a 4–3 win over Minnesota.

» October 11, 1969: Don Buford's leadoff home run starts a 4–1 Baltimore win over New York to open the World Series. Mike Cuellar bests Tom Seaver.

» October 15, 1969: A memorable World Series game pits Tom Seaver against Mike Cuellar. RF Ron Swoboda's questionable dive at Brooks Robinson's sinking liner with runners at 1B and 3B in the 9th inning results in a brilliant catch, even though Frank Robinson tags and scores the tying run. In the 10th, Mets pinch-hitter J.C. Martin, running illegally inside the 1B line after a bunt, is hit on the wrist by P Pete Richert's errant throw, enabling pinch runner Rod Gaspar to score from second as the Mets win 2–1. The game is enlivened by Earl Weaver getting thrown out after protesting ball and strike calls by Shag Crawford. Earl is the 3rd manager to leave early in a World Series, but the first since 1935.

» October 29, 1969: Tom Seaver is voted the National League Cy Young Award.

» November 20, 1969: San Francisco's Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as National League MVP.

» April 22, 1970: Tom Seaver strikes out 19 Padres, including the last 10 in succession in winning 2–1 for the Mets. Mike Corkin takes the loss. In this century, no one has ever struck out 10 in a row, a ML record. Counting the ten whiffs yesterday, the Pads have struck out 29 times in two games, a NL record that will be topped in 1998 when the Astros miss 31 times in two days. Jerry Grote adds one foul fly catch to his 19 putouts via K's.

» May 15, 1970: After the Mets have a day off, ace Tom Seaver matches Gary Gentry by allowing one hit in beating the Phillies and Woodie Fryman, 4–0. The two consecutive one-hitters ties a ML record.

» August 6, 1970: For the second and last time in his career, Lou Brock steals home, teaming up with Joe Hague in a double steal in the 1st inning against the Mets in St. Louis. Nelson Briles wins 3–0, stopping Tom Seaver's 9-game win streak.

» August 23, 1970: How do you spell relief? Don Gullett strikes out six straight batters and pitches four innings with no runners reaching base in beating the host Mets, 7–5. Gullett strikes out eight in the last four innings. The Reds win on Jimmy Stewart's 3-run pinch homer off Tom Seaver.

» August 28, 1970: Houston's Wade Blasingame continues his mastery of the Mets, winning 2–1, his 2nd victory over New York since being recalled from the minors. His record against the Mets is 9–0. Tom Seaver takes the loss.

» April 6, 1971: The Mets win their first opener ever at Shea Stadium, beating the Expos, 4–2, in five innings. Heavy rain and wind cuts the contest short. Tom Seaver is the winner over Morton.

» May 29, 1971: The Mets feature firepower as Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver combine to strike out 26, tying the Mets' own major-league record (September 9, 1970) in a sweep of the Padres. Seaver wins the opener, 5–1, with 10 K's and Ryan cops the nitecap, 2–1. Mets batters strike out 15 times: the 41 strikeouts ties the ML record.

» June 24, 1971: The Mets Tom Seaver smashes an 8th inning homer, off Montreal's Bill Stoneman, to win his own game, 2–1.

» June 29, 1971: Tom Seaver strikes out 13 batters in a 3–0 Mets win over the Phillies.

» July 11, 1971: The Reds win Game One against the Mets, 5–2, then complete the sweep as Tony Perez drives in all five runs to defeat the Mets, 5–3. Perez puts the Reds ahead with a 3-run homer off Tom Seaver in the 8th. Jim McGlothlin strikes out 12 in the game two win.

» September 16, 1971: At New York, lefty Juan Pizarro shuts out the Mets and Tom Seaver, 1–0. Pizarro does it all, clubbing a solo homer to win his own game. It's Pizarro's 2nd shutout in a row and Seaver's first loss after seven straight wins. Tom's last loss was August 1, also to Pizarro.

» June 19, 1972: Larry Dierker fires Houston's 2nd straight one-hitter, tying a ML record, beating the Mets, 3–0. He walks Willie Mays twice but Duffy Dyer's single in the 3rd is the only hit. The last pair of consecutive one-hitters were Gary Gentry and Tom Seaver on May 13–15, 1970.

» July 4, 1972: Leron Lee singles in the 9th to break up Tom Seaver's no-hitter, but the Mets shut out the Padres 2–0, in the opener. Seaver strikes out 11. The Pads take the nitecap, 4–2, as Nate Colbert hits his 16th homer.

» September 16, 1972: At Wrigley, Glenn Beckert sets a dubious major-league record by stranding 12 base runners but his Cubs beat the Mets, 18–5. The Cubs jump first, knocking out Tom Seaver in just two 1/3 innings. After Seaver loads the bases on walks in the 3rd, pitcher Burt Hooton homers. Chicago garners 15 walks, with Elrod Hendricks walking five straight times, a National League record. Cubs 2B Glenn Beckert sets a dubious major-league record when he strands 12 baserunners.

» July 13, 1973: Jack Billingham outduels Tom Seaver to give the Reds a 2–1 win over the Mets. Billingham allows just two hits in winning his 13th, the victory coming on Friday, the 13th.

» October 6, 1973: Jim Palmer fans 12 in shutting out the A's 6–0 in the opening game of the American League Championship Series. Meanwhile, Tom Seaver fans 13 and takes a 1–0 lead into the 8th inning of the National League opener, only to be beaten by home runs by Pete Rose and Johnny Bench. The Reds top the Mets 2–1.

» October 10, 1973: Tom Seaver hurls the Mets into the Series with a 7–2 victory over the Reds. New York has 13 hits in the contest.

» October 31, 1973: Tom Seaver wins the National League Cy Young Award, the first time the honor has gone to a player with fewer than 20 wins. Seaver was 19-10 and led the league in ERA (2.08) and strikeouts (251).

» May 1, 1974: Tom Seaver allows only three hits and two walks, striking out 16 Dodgers in 12 innings, but the Mets lose in the 14th 2–1.

» May 21, 1975: The Reds, entering the game with a 20-20 record, five games behind the first-place Dodgers, come from behind to beat the Tom Seaver and Mets, 11–4. Cincinnati will go on to win 41 of 50 games and run away with the National League West title.

» July 13, 1975: The Reds score four runs in the 8th inning to defeat Tom Seaver and the Mets, 5–3. The Reds have won 41 of their last 50 games.

» September 1, 1975: Mets ace Tom Seaver shuts out the Pirates 3–0 and reaches 200 strikeouts for a ML-record 8th straight season.

» September 24, 1975: Tom Seaver's bid for a no-hitter is again spoiled in the 9th by a little-known Cub batter. This time it is Joe Wallis who lines a 2-out single in the 9th for Chicago's first hit. Seaver retires the next hitter, but the score through nine innings is 0–0. The Cubs tally two more hits in the 10th, but fail to score. When Skip Lockwood relieves Seaver in the 11, Chicago finally scores to win, 1–0.

» November 12, 1975: The Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award. He led the National League with 22 wins, notched 243 strikeouts, and had a 2.38 ERA.

» March 28, 1976: A nearly completed Mets-Dodgers trade, involving ace pitchers Tom Seaver and Don Sutton, is leaked by the New York press. The subsequent public furor causes the Mets to abandon the deal.

» May 15, 1976: At Cincinnati, the Mets Tom Seaver loses, 2-0, to the Reds as Santo Alcala pitches a 4-hitter.

» September 18, 1976: Tom Seaver cuts down the Pirates for the 2nd time in six days, this time winning 6–2 at Shea. Dave Kingman belts his 35th homer and Ed Kranepool adds another of the Mets.

» June 15, 1977: New York fans are in shock as the Mets trade ace P Tom Seaver to the Reds. In return they get P Pat Zachry, IF Doug Flynn, and minor leaguers Steve Henderson and Dan Norman. The Mets also trade slugger Dave Kingman to the Padres for utility player Bobby Valentine and a minor league pitcher.

» June 18, 1977: In his debut in a Reds uniform, Tom Seaver fires a 3-hit shutout as the Reds beat the Expos, 6–0.

» July 14, 1977: In Cincinnati, George Foster cracks three home runs to drive in five runs against the Reds 7–1 whipping of the Braves. Tom Seaver pitches a two hitter for the win, and doesn't give up a hit until the 7th inning when Willie Montanez doubles.

» August 21, 1977: Tom Seaver makes his first appearance in Shea Stadium as a member of the Reds, and pitches a six hitter to beat the Mets, 5–1. Tom Terrific strikes out 11, has a double at the plate and scores twice.

» September 20, 1977: In San Diego, Tom Seaver pitches a two hitter as the Reds win, 4–0.

» April 6, 1978: In a rain-delayed season opener in Cincinnati, Houston's Terry Puhl leads off with a homer against Tom Seaver, who allows five runs in three innings. But led by Joe Morgan's pair of two-run doubles and a homer, the Reds prevail, 11–9. In the bottom of the 7th, with Morgan on 3B and George Foster on 1B, Dan Driessen strikes out and Foster is caught stealing 2B, Ferguson to Roger Metzger. Morgan tries to score on the play and is thrown out on the return. According to Retrosheet, this is apparently the first triple play begun with a strikeout. In 1982, the Twins will start a triple play with a strikeout.

» May 16, 1978: The Reds Tom Seaver strikes out 13 in beating the Expos, 7–1, in Montreal.

» June 16, 1978: In the 12th ML season of a career speckled with near-misses, Cincinnati Tom Seaver finally hurls a no-hitter. The Cardinals are the 4–0 victims as Seaver strikes out 3.

» August 15, 1978: The Phils drop their 4th in a row, losing to the Dodgers, 5–2. The loss cuts the Phils' lead to two games as the Cubs beat the Reds and Tom Seaver in an afternoon contest. After Reggie Smith had driven in the game-winner the previous two nights, it is Steve Garvey's turn. His triple in the 8th off Tug McGraw, with the bases loaded breaks a 2–2 tie.

» September 15, 1978: Tom Seaver pitches a 2-hitter to give the Reds a 6–1 win over the Giants at Candlestick. A single and a Darrell Evans homer are the only safeties.

» April 4, 1979: More than 20 umpires picket the ML season opener at Cincinnati. The game goes ahead anyway on the newly installed astroturf and the Giants beat the Reds 11–5. San Francisco scores eight runs in the 2nd to knock out Tom Seaver. Vida Blue is the winner with Mike Ivie hitting the game's only home run. Attendance is 52,115.

» April 19, 1979: In Cincinnati, Tom Seaver allows jut two hits as the Reds beat the Braves, 2–0.

» May 25, 1979: Seven different Dodgers, including P Rick Sutcliffe, hit home runs as Los Angeles buries the visiting Reds 17–6. Sutcliffe poles his off Tom Seaver. The last homer for LA comes when Davey Lopes hits a 3–0 pitch in the 6th with the Dodgers up, 14–2. In his next at bat, Dave Tomlin decks Lopes four straight times inciting a brawl.

» June 9, 1979: Tom Seaver fires a 3-hitter, retiring the last 24 batters, in the Reds 7–1 win over the Expos. As noted by Rhodes and Snyder in their Reds history, Dave Concepcion hits a red seat homer off Bill Lee.

» June 30, 1979: In San Francisco, the Reds Tom Seaver fires a 3-hitter, beating the Giants, 2–0. Tom Terrific retires the last 21 straight batters and the Reds push over two runs in the 9th off Ed Whitson to win.

» August 26, 1979: At Shea Stadium, the Reds Tom Seaver shuts out the Mets, 8–0, for his 11th consecutive win.

» April 9, 1980: The Reds Tom Seaver is scratched from his Opening Day start against the Braves because of the flu, and his replacement, Frank Pastore, tosses a 3-hit shutout. Braves P Phil Niekro is on the short end of the 9–0 decision. George Foster knocks a 2-run double off Niekro in the first inning, and receives credit for the first game-winning RBI, a newly created ML stat that will survive till the end of the 1988 season.

» April 30, 1980: J.R. Richard tops Reds vet Tom Seaver, 5–1, to move Houston into 1st place. Richard will lose his next three starts.

» November 4, 1980: Steve Carlton joins Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver, and Jim Palmer as the only pitchers to win three Cy Young Awards, garnering 23 of 24 first-place votes to take National League honors. Carlton was 24-9 with a 2.34 ERA and led the NL with 286 strikeouts.

» April 18, 1981: Reds pitcher Tom Seaver strikes out Keith Hernandez in the 4th inning of a 10–4 loss to the Cardinals, becoming the 5th pitcher in ML history with 3,000 career strikeouts.

» November 11, 1981: Fernando Valenzuela becomes the first rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award, edging the Reds Tom Seaver 70-67 for National League honors. He was the first rookie since Herb Score in 1955 to lead his league in strikeouts with 180.

» April 28, 1982: The Cubs Dickie Noles pitches his first career complete game, a 6–0 one-hitter over Tom Seaver and the Reds. The only hit off Noles is Eddie Milner's single leading off the 4th inning.

» December 16, 1982: Tom Seaver agrees to a new contract with the Mets, completing a trade that sends him back to New York from Cincinnati. The Reds receive pitcher Charlie Puleo and minor leaguers Lloyd McClendon and Jason Felice for the 3-time Cy Young Award winner, who was 5-13 with a 5.50 ERA in 1982. Seaver will surprise the Reds by winning 47 more games before hanging it up in 1986.

» April 5, 1983: In his first appearance as a Met since 1977, Tom Seaver combines with Doug Sisk to shut out the Phillies 2–0 on five hits. It is Seaver's 14th National League Opening Day assignment, tying Walter Johnson's record with Washington.

» January 20, 1984: In a move that stuns New York fans, the White Sox draft Tom Seaver as compensation for losing Type A free agent Dennis Lamp to the Blue Jays. The Mets left Seaver off their protected list assuming —- wrongly -— that no team would want to select the aging star, who finished 1983 with a 9-14 record and a 3.55 ERA.

» April 8, 1984: Tom Seaver makes an inauspicious American League debut, allowing five runs in 4 1/3 innings in Chicago's 7–3 loss to Detroit.

» May 9, 1984: The longest—and slowest—game in American League history ends in the 25th inning when Harold Baines homers off Chuck Porter to give the White Sox a 7–6 victory over the Brewers. It is the latest homer in history. The game falls one inning shy of the ML record, but takes by far the most time to play: eight hours and six minutes. The contest was suspended yesterday after 17 innings with the score tied 3–3, and each team scores three more runs in the 21st. The Sox lose a chance to win in the 21st as runner Dave Stegman is touched by 3B coach Jim Leyland, which leads to a Sox protest. Tom Seaver pitches the final inning to earn the win, then wins the regularly scheduled game as well 5–4. Tom Paciorek of the Sox, who sets a major-league record as he enters the game in the fourth inning and registers nine at bats.

» April 9, 1985: At Milwaukee, Tom Seaver of the White Sox sets a major-league record by making the 15th of his 16 opening day starts. Seaver works six 2/3 innings in beating the Brewers, 4–2, and upping his overall record is 7-2 for opening day starts. The Brewers will beat Seaver in next year's opener. The victory is his 298th.

» August 4, 1985: In a day of milestones, Tom Seaver becomes the 17th pitcher to win 300 games and Rod Carew becomes the 16th player ever to collect 3,000 career hits. Seaver pitches the White Sox to a 4–1 six-hit victory on Phil Rizzuto Day at Yankee Stadium as 54,032 New Yorkers cheer him on, while Carew bloops a single to left off Frank Viola in the 3rd inning of the Angels 6–5 win over the Twins.

» April 8, 1986: At Chicago, Tom Seaver makes his major-league record 16th Opening Day start, but the White Sox vet loses to the Brewers, 5–3.

» April 29, 1986: Twenty-three-year-old Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens strikes out 20 batters in a 3–1 win over Seattle, breaking the major-league record of 19 shared by Nolan Ryan, Steve Carlton, and Tom Seaver. Clemens doesn't walk a batter, allows just three hits, and ties the American League record (Ryan and Davis) with eight consecutive strikeouts in the middle innings.

» June 22, 1987: Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career W-L record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th).

» September 12, 1991: Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan wins his 10th game, beating the Twins, 4–3, and becoming just the second pitcher ever to reach double figures in wins in 20 different seasons. Don Sutton did it 21 seasons. The win, Ryan's 312th of his career moves him past Tom Seaver into 14th place on the career list. Jack Morris is the CG loser.

» January 7, 1992: P Tom Seaver and Rollie Fingers are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Seaver finishes with a record 98.8% of the votes cast. Pete Rose, ineligible because of his ban from baseball, receives 41 write–in votes.

» August 2, 1992: Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver are inducted in baseball’s Hall of Fame.

» August 4, 1992: An unidentified buyer purchases a toothpick once used by Mets Hall of Fame P Tom Seaver at a memorabilia auction in New York for $400. At the same auction, actor Charlie Sheen pays $85,000 for the ball hit by Mookie Wilson which went through Bill Buckner’s legs to end Game Six of the 1986 WS.

» February 3, 1999: The Mets decline to offer a new contract to announcer Tim McCarver, a 16 year veteran behind the mike for New York. The outspoken McCarver will be replaced by Tom Seaver, who vows to be less critical of the home team. The Hall of Fame pitcher will also serve as a part–time coach for the team.

» June 17, 2001: Royals fireballer Blake Stein fans eight straight Brewers, and 11 in five 2/3 innings, but Milwaukee defeats Kansas City, 5-2. Only Nolan Ryan (twice), Ron Davis and Roger Clemens have struck out eight in a row in the AL. Tom Seaver holds the major-league record with 10 straight K's, in 1970.

» August 10, 2002: The Diamondbacks beat the Marlins, 9–2, as Randy Johnson fans 14 Florida batters to move past Tom Seaver into 5th place on the all–time list.