CONGRATULATIONS! You have received a game used jersey card from the Upper Deck Company, LLC. On the front of this card is an authentic piece of a jersey worn by Tom Seaver in an Official Mets MLB Game. We hope you enjoy this piece of Major League Baseball History as we at Upper Deck continue to keep you as close as you can get! Richard P. McWilliam, CEO. The Upper Deck Company, LLC. Upper Deck, Legendary Cuts, and the card hologram are TMs of the Upper Deck Company, , LLC, 2004. @2004- The Upper Deck, LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. respectively M.L.B. com. Includes logos of the New York Mets, Upper Deck, M.L.B., Cooperstown Collection, and National Baseball Hall of Fame. # LSW-TS. Tom Seaver: Born in Fresno, California, November 17, 1944. Died Calistoga, California, on August 31, 2020. Nicknamed, "Tom Terrific," and "The Franchise." MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LIFETIME STATISTICS: Played 20 MLB seasons with the Mets, Reds, White Sox and Red Sox MLB won-lost record, 311-205
Career E.R.A. 2.86 Career Strike Out Total 3,640 Seaver recorded a 4–0 no-hitter for the Reds against the St. Louis Cardinals on June 16, 1978, at Riverfront Stadium, in Cincinnati Seaver threw five one-hitters for the Mets, including two games in which no-hit bids were broken up in the ninth inning His feat of striking out ten consecutive batters has only been matched one other time, by Aaron Nola of the Phillies in 2021 Tom Seaver and Walter Johnson are the only two MLB pitchers to have 300 wins, 3,000 strikeouts, and an earned run average under 3.00
MLB All Star player 12 times World Series Champ in 1969 with the New York Mets 3 time National League Cy Young winner, 1969, 1973 and 1975 National League Rookie of the Year in 1967 3 time National League Wins Leader, 1969, 1975 and 1981 3 time National League E.R.A. Leader, 1970, 1971, and 1973 5 time National League Strike Out Leader, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1976 The Mets retired Seaver's uniform number 41 in 1988 in a Tom Seaver Day ceremony, making him the franchise's first player to be so honored Seaver was elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame on January 7, 1992, with the then-highest percentage of votes with 98.84% He was named on 425 out of 430 ballots. Inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame, the Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame, and the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.
On April 15, 2022, at their home opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Mets unveiled a 10-foot statue of Tom Seaver in front of Citi Field, Flushing, New York |