Tug McGraw

Frank Edwin " Tug " McGraw Jr. ( born August 30, 1944 in Martinez, California, † January 5, 2004 in Brentwood, Tennessee) was an American baseball player.

Taken in 1964 by the New York Mets under contract, he made his debut on April 18, 1965 for the Mets in the professional league. On 3 December 1974, he was transferred with Donald Antone Hahn and David Lee Schneck in exchange for Delbert Bernard Unser, John Hardin Stearns and Guerrant McCurdy Scarce to the Philadelphia Phillies. There he played until September 25, 1984 professional baseball and came at the end of his career on 824 games, but he was four times in the World Series (1969, 1973, each with the Mets ), 1980 and 1983 ( with the Phillies ) and won these only 1973 did not ( defeat in seven games against the Oakland A's ).

Outstanding made ​​his role especially important in the first World Series win the Phillies in 1980, when he ( was the last batter of the Royals Willie James Wilson) in the ninth inning for the ultimate out against the batter the Kansas City Royals. When choosing the best pitcher that year ( Cy Young Trophy, National League ) the son of a ( who died in 1991 at the age of 80 years old ) servants occupied in the oil industry in fifth place, but won the Babe Ruth Award.

At the time of his death McGraw occupied in the manifold Pitcher Statistics Major League, the Phillies and Mets, among others, the following placements: With 824 missions he was in the list of pitchers used in the league 24, had the third highest stakes of all ever used Phillies pitcher and the fifth most of which the Mets.

In 1975, he was next to Gregory Michael Luzinski, David Cash Jr. and Lawrence Robert Bowa one of four players the Phillies at the All -Star Game, there was, however, not to represent the National League action. 1972, however, already ( in the ninth inning ), still there. Than actor in the Mets, Willie Howard Mays Jr. and George Thomas Seaver For his contributions to his sport, the pitcher 1999 in Philadelphia Baseball Hall of Fame has been taken into account in the Hall of Fame of the Mets in 1993, he found recording.

Frank Edwin " Tug " McGraw Jr. is the father of country musician Tim McGraw. On his estate in Brentwood, Tennessee, he succumbed to the beginning of 2004 59 -year-old from cancer that had been diagnosed nine months earlier. McGraw Jr. was indeed married twice, but never with the mother of Tim, Elizabeth Ann D' Agostino. He left two other sons and a daughter.

2003 Tug - McGraw Foundation was established, which supports research on brain tumors.