Author’s Flashback — Confessions of a Hero Worshipper: Tom Seaver & Me

By Stephen Hanks
Published on May 11, 1978 in the Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY) Student Newspaper MERIDIAN • One Week Before Graduation Day

HOW I’LL ALWAYS SEE TOM SEAVER: WITH M-E-T-S ON THE JERSEY; THAT CLASSIC KNEE-SCRAPING THE MOUND PITCHING MOTION SO INDELIBLY ETCHED IN MY MIND

On Thursday evening, September 13, 1977, my idol won his 200th career game. It was against the Los Angeles Dodgers and, of course, from that information you easily arrive at the…