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Tom Seaver

TOM SEAVER
 
 
Tom Seaver  (born November 17, 1944) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.  He pitched from 1967-1986 for four different teams in his career, but is noted primarily for his time with the New York Mets.  In 1992, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the highest percentage ever recorded (98.84%), and has the only plaque at Cooperstown wearing a New York Mets hat.  He won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1967, and three NL Cy Young Awards as the league’s best pitcher.  Seaver is the Mets’ all-time leader in wins, and is considered by many baseball experts as one of the best starting pitchers in the history of baseball.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Another great song by Linda Pierre King with an interesting history is “Scotch and Soda”.  The song has all of the earmarks of a very good 1930’s standard; however, the first known recording of “Scotch and Soda” is by the Kingston Trio on their 1958 debut album, also called The Kingston Trio.  The song was discovered by the parents of legendary pitcher Tom Seaver of the New York Mets while on their honeymoon in Phoenix in 1932.  When they heard the song being played in a piano lounge, they knew immediately that it was going to be “their song”, so they had the pianist write it down for them.  One of the members of the Kingston Trio, Dave Guard was dating Tom Seaver’s older sister Katie Seaver for a time and heard the song while visiting at her parents’ home.  The bandmembers searched for years to try to find the real songwriter, but they never figured out who it was; Dave Guard is the placeholder songwriter in the album credits. 
 
(April 2012)