Jimmy Qualls was a most unlikely player to end Tom Seaver's perfect game Mets righthander pitcher Tom Seaver deliverd against the Cubs at Shea Stadium on July 9, 1969. Seaver hurled a one-hitter ...

Seeing Marvelous Marvin Hagler (his legal name) fight to a draw in the Boston Garden against Vito Antuofermo pissed me off...it wasn't a disappointment. So rare it is to get out to see a live ...

50,709 fans who paid their way into Shea Stadium saw Tom Seaver pitch a near-perfect game. Cubs manager Leo Durocher sits glumly in the dugout on July 9, 1969. Robert Sabo/New York Daily News.

Mets pitcher Tom Seaver talks to reporters in the locker room after a one-hitter game against the Chicago Cubs in New York City, July 9, 1969. The Mets won, 4-0. The perfect game ended in the 9th ...

It was Jimmy Qualls who ruined Seaver’s perfect game bid with a one-out single in the ninth toward the end of a warm July night. “The Qualls hit just was a shot to the solar plexus,” Rose ...

Tom Seaver dreamed of being part of a combined no-hitter. Focus on Sport via Getty Images. It’s funny, too. The last year Seaver, Matlack and Koosman made it to the All-Star break as Mets ...

New York Mets pitcher Tom Seaver talks to reporters in the locker room after a one-hitter game against the Chicago Cubs in New York City, July 9, 1969. The Mets won, 4-0. The perfect game ended in ...

He came within two outs of a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs in 1969 — he called it his “imperfect” game — and ... Tom Seaver was different. Accessibility statement Skip to main ...

Seaver, who died Monday at age 75, was recalled as a masterly pitcher who defined the Mets for a generation and belongs in the pantheon of the game’s giants.

Tom Seaver as a rookie in 1967, ... It was the season in which he came within two outs of a perfect game in a July showdown with the Cubs at Shea, loudly declaring that the Mets, ...

Tom Seaver, who died Monday from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19, pitched his only career no-hitter in 1978 in a game against the Cardinals. The night Tom Seaver was at his most ...