The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times

In early 1969 New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically criminally and athletically. But while Simon and Garfunkel lamented the absence of a sports icon like Joe DiMaggio a modern Lancelot rode forth to lead the New York Mets to heights above and beyond all sports glory. This book tells the complete unvarnished story of the great Tom Seaver that rarest of all American heroes the New York Sports Icon. In a city that produces not mere mortals but sports gods Seaver represented the last of a breed. His deeds his times his town―it was part of a vanishing era an era of innocence. In 1969 six years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination Seaver and the Mets were the last gasp of idealism before free agency Watergate and cynicism. Here is the story of “Tom Terrific” of the “Amazin’ Mets” a man worthy of a place alongside DiMaggio Ruth Mantle and Namath in the pantheon of New York idols.