Baseball Legend Tom Seaver Dead at 75
By Gord Bacon
Seavers family says he died due to complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID19 Monday
New York Mets Hall of Famer Tom Seaver has died at the age of 75.
According to a statement from Major League Baseball, Seaver's family says he died Monday at his California home due to complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19.
Seaver won 311 games over the course of his 20-year career, 12 of which were spent with the Mets.
He was named to the All-Star Team 12 times, won the 1969 World Series with the Mets and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992 on the first ballot by a 98.8 per cent margin.
At the time, that was the highest percentage of votes in favour of sending anyone to the hall by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.