Former New York Mets ace and baseball Hall of Famer Tom Seaver has passed away from “complications of Lyme disease and dementia.”
Seaver was 75 and retired from public life after being diagnosed with dementia last year.
The sad news was first reported by Bill Madden of The New York Daily News.
Tom Seaver debuted with the Mets as a 22-year-old in 1967, just one year after the team signed him out of USC. He went 16-13 with a 2.76 ERA and was named NL Rookie of the Year. Two years later, Seaver won his first of three Cy Young Awards, and his Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series.