One of the most esteemed works of sports literature was written 55 years ago by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee. It was a profile of a Princeton student and basketball player named Bill ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The Mets went to their second World Series in 1973, perhaps as the most unheralded team in series history, and they rode the arm of Tom Seaver every step of the way. The team, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GREENWICH, CT — To those who grew up in Greenwich in the mid-1960s into the mid-1980s, the news about the passing of Major League ...

When you think of the New York Mets, the first player you think of is Tom Seaver. “The Franchise.” “Tom Terrific.” For a long time, Seaver was the only Mets Hall of Famer. He is the greatest player in ...

There have been other great baseball pitchers and there will be other pitchers. Just not here, and not the way Tom Seaver was a great for the Mets once. They called him “The Franchise” and that is ...

When Tom Seaver was a young pitcher for the New York Mets, he built a wine cellar in the basement of his family home. He lined up fireplace flues to serve as the bottle holders. He meticulously ...