Seeing Jimmy Qualls and Remembering Tom Terrific

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By chance I was in Warsaw, Illinois a while back. Driving down the hill of a street leading to the base of the Mississippi River was a grain loading dock for barges.

And it was there I caught a glimpse of Jimmy Qualls, whom I had met a couple of years before. Qualls was in the Reds organization for a while in the early 1970s and played with the Indianapolis Indians in AAA and was at a couple of Red spring trainings.

But whenever I see or hear the name Jimmy Qualls, I always think about Tom Seaver. Those two are forever linked in baseball history.

It was Jimmy Qualls who broke up Seaver’s perfect game in July 1969. It came in a heated pennant race between the Chicago Cubs and the New…