Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw, Jr. (August 30, 1944 - January 5, 2004) is a Major League Baseball aid pitcher and father of American singer and actor Tim McGraw. He is remembered for uniting the phrase, "Ya Gotta Believe" which became a popular appeal for the New York Mets, and for recording the final out, through a copy of Willie Wilson's Kansas City Royals, in the 1980 World Series, took the Philadelphia Phillies as their first world champion. He is the last major league player active under manager Casey Stengel.
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McGraw was born in Martinez, California, to Frank Edwin's "Big Mac" McGraw, Sr. and Mable McKenna. She gets the nickname "Tug" from her mother because of the very aggressive way she breastfeeds. Frank Senior is a great-grandson of Irish immigrants. McGraw graduated from St. Vincent Ferrer High School in Vallejo, California, in 1962. He enrolled at Solano Community College and signed with New York Mets as an amateur free agent on June 12, 1964 after graduation.
Marine Corps Reservation Service
After a season with the Mets, McGraw reported to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on September 23, 1965, alongside fellow New York Met Ford pitcher Bethke. He was trained as a man armed with a M14 rifle and a M60 machine gun. McGraw was later reported to Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune where he (in his own words) became a "trained killer."
For McGraw, one of the most challenging aspects of the military is the internal conflict that drives itself. At the same time as he completed his Marines training, Tug McGraw's brother, Dennis McGraw, was in an anti-war protest at Solano Community College, where he was a student. In a March 5, 1967 New York Times article, McGraw acknowledged that he and his brother would argue about the way the Vietnam War was carried out. But even he, with his six-year Reserve commitment to the United States Marine Corps towering above it, will admit that he is "a dove when it comes to the [United States] road of war."
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Baseball Careers
New York Mets
McGraw is used both as an early pitcher and out of underage bullpen; and, after just one season on the Mets farm system, where he went 6-4 with an average of 1.64 earned in Rookie and A class ball, McGraw made the Mets out of the 1965 Spring training without ever playing a double or triple ball A. That same year, when asked if he preferred the new AstroTurf on the field at Houston Astrodome to the real grass, he said, "I do not know, I never smoked AstroTurf".
McGraw made the team a reliever, and 0-1 with 3.12 ERA and another saved as he started his first major league on July 28 against the Chicago Cubs in the second game of double header at Wrigley Field. He lasted just two-thirds of the innings and surrendered three runs on his way to a 9-0 loss (the Cubs blew the Mets out in the first game as well, 7-2). On August 22, at the start of both, also in the second game of the double header, only this time against the St. Louis Cardinals at Shea Stadium, McGraw scored a full goal to clinch his first major win in the league. He won the next start as well, 5-2 over Sandy Koufax and Los Angeles Dodgers. This marks the first time Mets ever beat the Hall of Fame of the future. McGraw remained in the Mets' starting rotation for the rest of the season, however, failing to enter another win, going 2-6 as a starter, and 0-1 relieved.
Mets used McGraw as a starter again in 1966, and he was 2-9 with 5.52 ERA in that role. Although he also made four starts with the Mets in 1967, McGraw spent most of the season, and all of 1968 in the minor league with the Jacksonville Suns. By the time he returned to the Mets in 1969, manager Gil Hodges had a very strong pitching rotation that included Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman and Gary Gentry and no need for McGraw as a starter until Koosman came down with injury in May. McGraw went 1-1 with a 5.23 ERA filling for Koosman.
Koosman returned to rotation at the end of the month and on May 28, after losing five straight matches that saw the Mets fall into fourth place in the new East National League, Koosman and San Diego Padres' Clay Kirby were involved in a duel pitcher at Shea. After nine months of goalless by Kirby and ten by Koosman, the game was handed over to the bullpens for an additional round. The game finally ended after eleven innings when Bud Harrelson hit one for driving on Cleon Jones. McGraw put the eleventh inning to victory.
It started 11 consecutive wins that took them into second place, seven games behind the Chicago Cubs. McGraw grabbed two savings during the stretch, and 12 for the season. His record as a reliever is 8-2 with 1.47 ERA.
The Chicago Cubs are in first place at NL East for 156 days this season, and they seem to be winning the division when they come to New York City to open two important game series with Mets on September 8th. Mets won both games to close in half the game of Cubs. The next day, the Mets swept double headers from the Montreal Expos. Coupled with losses of the Cubs (who have slumped to a 9-17 record in their last 26 matches), the Mets moved into first place for the first time during the 1969 season.
On September 15, St. Louis Cardinals' Steve Carlton set a 19 Mets batters record in a losing attempt, as the Mets defeated Card 4-3 at the Busch Stadium on a pair of two-run home runs by Ron Swoboda. McGraw put up three final innings without surrendering to victory in this game. On September 24, facing Carlton and Cardinals, again - only this time at Shea Stadium, the New York Mets captured NL East when Donn Clendenon scored two home runs in a 6-0 Mets win. The Mets won 39 of their last 50 games, and finished the season with 100 wins against 62 losses, eight games over second place Cubs.
The post-season experience of McGraw (and new in 1969) came in game two of the 1969 National League Championship Series. After Atlanta Braves illuminated Koosman for six times in a span of 4, Ron Taylor and McGraw held Braves without the remaining goal of the path to secure a Match '11-6 victory. He did not appear in the 1969 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.
While McGraw was low in the 1969 season, he remembered that year very dearly, saying, "Everything changed for me in 1969, the year we were amazingly awesome, okay."
"Yes Must Believe!"
McGraw emerged as one of the top cover in the National League in the early 1970s, enjoying a career year in 1972. He is a 3-3 with 2.01 ERA and fifteen saves at All-Star break to get his first All-Star option. McGraw pitched two innings, striking four and giving up just one punch to earn a victory at 4-3 NL coming from behind the win. For the season, McGraw went 8-6 with 1.70 ERA, giving up only 71 hits in 106 pitched streaks, and setting the Mets record with 27 saves that lasted until 1984.
While 1973 was not as good as statistical year for McGraw, he was rewarded for a leadership role that was assumed for the league champions. The Mets have fallen to last place in East NL, and remain there until August 30th. McGraw was the winning pitcher for the Mets on August 31 when the Mets emerged from last place with an extra round victory over the St Louis Cardinals. The win improved McGraw's record to 2-6 with 5.05 ERA.
For the rest of the season, McGraw went 3-0 with 0.57 ERA and ten saves. The Mets, meanwhile, went 20-8 from that point forward to draw an amazing division title. At the July 9 team meeting where Mets Council Chair M. Donald Grant tried to push the team, McGraw shouted the words, "Ya Gotta Believe" which became a popular appeal for the Mets. He says the famous phrase when maybe he just believes the Mets can actually get to the World Series. But soon, hearing McGraw say it again and again, seeing him do his magic in the ninth, the Mets themselves became believers. They went into first place on 21 September with a 10-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, and seized divisional crown on the final day of the season. This marked the only time between 1970 and 1980 that the National League of the East was not won by Phillies Phillies or Pirates.
McGraw continued his dominant game into the post-season when he installed five innings in two games in the 1973 National League Championship Series against the Cincinnati Reds without giving up, and appeared in five of the seven World Series 1973 games against Oakland Athletics. Although he blew the save in the two World Series games, he installed three shutout rounds in extra round to earn a win.
On 3 December 1974, the Mets traded McGraw and outsiders Don Hahn and Dave Schneck to the Philadelphia Phillies for Mac Scarce pitchers, outsiders Del Unser and catcher John Stearns, who had been taken into account overall in the 1973 Major League Baseball draft. McGraw has developed a shoulder problem during the 1974 season, and at the time of trading, it looked as if Mets might have unpacked the damaged items. After trading, he was diagnosed with a simple cyst and after a successful surgery to remove it, healed completely. McGraw left the Mets as the all-time leader in the rescue, pitched game, and finished game.
Philadelphia Phillies
With Phillies, he continued his role as a reliable aid pitcher, earning his second All-Star career nodding in his first season in Philadelphia, although he did not appear in the game. After finishing both Pirates in 1975, McGraw's Phillies won their division crown the next three seasons. They, however, could not reach the World Series as they were swept by Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" in the 1976 National League Championship Series, and fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the next two seasons.
Phillies was battling back and forth for first place with Montreal Expos in 1980 when Expos came to the Veteran Stadium for three important matches set on 25 September. Phillies won two out of three, with McGraw winning the second game, to draw a half-game in Montreal. By the time the Phillies went to Montreal for the final series of the season, both teams were tied for first place.
Phillies won the opener, 2-1. McGraw got the save by beating five of the six batters he faced. The next day, McGraw entered the game in the ninth inning, with the score tied at four. McGraw pitched three innings, striking three and just giving up one hit (inning a tenth single inning by Jerry White) and also one of only two balls to leave infield after McGraw enters the game). After Mike Schmidt made his eleventh home run, the Phillies went up 6-4, McGraw scored 1-2-3 in the 11th minute, beating Larry Parrish to end the game, and winning the Eastern League for the Phillies for the fourth time since joining the club.
For the season, McGraw went 5-4 with a 1.46 ERA, 75 strikeouts and twenty rescues. Phillies racer Steve Carlton won the National League Cy Young Award, and third Mike Schmidt's third baseman was NL MVP unanimously. McGraw received consideration in a vote for both awards as well, finishing fifth in Cy Young's voting, and sixteenth for the MVP league.
World Cup 1980
McGraw pitched in all five games of the 1980 National League Championship series against Houston Astros. Phillies won the first game 3-1, with McGraw getting the save. Astros, however, came back in game two with an extra round triumph to send the series to Houston tied on one game apiece.
McGraw enters game three in the eighth inning with runners in seconds, and another. He made it out of the innings, and kept Astros from scoring until the eleventh innings, when Joe Morgan led the innings off with a triple. Rafael Landestoy enters the game as a pinch runner for Morgan, and McGraw deliberately runs the next two batters to create power at any base. The strategy did not work, because the following dough, Denny Walling, crashed into the sacrifice of flying to Greg Luzinski on the left, scoring Landestoy.
The last two games of this series also go into additional rounds. He got the save in four games even the series, however, blew the save in the fifth game and decided, allowing it to go into extra rounds. Dick Ruthven entered the game in ninth and pitched two. Meanwhile, the Phillies returned with a run in the tenth to continue into the 1980 World Series against Royals Kansas City.
McGraw appeared in four of the six games of the 1980 World Series, hitting ten batters in 7.2 innings. Phillies swept the first two games in Philadelphia, with McGraw getting a save in game one. The Royals, however, returned to the series even after two matches in Kansas City, with McGraw taking a loss in game three.
McGraw entered the game five in the seventh inning with Phillies behind 3-2. He installed three goalless innings, while his team scored two ninth innings against closer Royals Dan Quisenberry to return to Philadelphia with a 3-2 series lead. McGraw entered the sixth game of the World Series in the eighth inning without going out, and runners on first and second, and the Phillies went up, 4-0. He allowed a base runner inherited to score, but made it through a relatively innocent inning. After giving up the walk and two singles to load the base in the ninth inning, he attacked Willie Wilson, winning the first World Series Phillies championship.
The next day, at the victory rally at John F. Kennedy Stadium, McGraw summed it all up for the fans after 97 years of futility for the Phillies franchise:
In the years that followed, McGraw expressed regret for his comments on New York. He returned to Shea Stadium on numerous occasions after his retirement, citing his love for Mets fans.
Last four seasons
McGraw went 2-4 with 2.66 ERA and saved ten in the 1981 season-long strike. Phillies won the first half-season crown, however, losing the 1981 National League Division Series to the Montreal Expos. On March 17, 1981, McGraw wore a green uniform colored on St Patrick's Day for a spring training game, though the referee refused to let him play. McGraw called St. John's Day. Patrick as his favorite holiday. Since 1989, the Phillies have a tradition of playing green on St. Patrick.
In 1982. McGraw shifted to more of a human role set-up, with both Ron Reed and Ed Farmer earning more savings than him in this season. Before the start of the 1983 season, Phillies acquired Al Holland from the San Francisco Giants to take on a closer role. After the 1984 season, McGraw retired. McGraw, as a relief for old friend Roman Gabriel, will return to professional baseball to start singles during the minor league season of 1989 and 1990 with Class A Gastonia Rangers of the Southern Atlantic League.
Career statistics
While the relief thrower was not given the opportunity to frequent bats, McGraw was allowed to pioneer the sixth inning from the 6-0 blast at the Montreal Expos on 8 September 1971. He rewarded his manager's confidence by placing Mets on board with his only home run of his career.
McGraw can also throw his right hand and often loosen up before the game by playing catching his right hand with his teammates, leaving fans wondering who is using the number 45. At the time of his death, McGraw was ranked:
- 24 on the main league list of all time in pitched games (824)
- 22 on the all-time major league list in the finished game (541)
- 4th on the Mets list all the time in the saved game (86)
- 4th on the Mets list all the time in the finished game (228)
- the 5th on the Mets list of all time in most pitched games (361)
- 7 on the all-time Mets list at least hit by nine innings (7,78)
- the 10th on the Mets list of all time in most batters attacked per nine innings (7.02)
- 1 on the all-time Phillies list in the finished game (313)
- 3rd on the all-time Phillies list in the on-show game (500)
- 4th on the Phillies list of all time in storage (94)
- 8 on the all time Phillies list at least hit by nine innings (7.89)
Other jobs
In the 1980s and 1990s, he hosted a sports show and reporter for Action News at WPVI, an American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Philadelphia. She appeared as herself in the 1999 episode Everybody Loves Raymond . Together with several other members of the 1969 New York Mets on a nationwide syndicated comic "Scroogie". Scroogie is a pitcher of help for "Pets", whose teammates include "Tyrone" (a bopper resembling Reggie Jackson with a remarkable ego), ace pitcher "Royce Rawls" (loosely based on former Mets teammate Tom Seaver), "Chico" on shortstop and "Homer", an intellectually challenging slugger who can send the ball into orbit. Their broadcaster, "Herb", wears a sports coat reminiscent of former Mets broadcaster, Lindsey Nelson, and the team is owned by Millicent Cashman. The team and main league teams are actually used in comic strips for two years running.
McGraw, Witte, David Fisher, and Neil Offer produced two books, Scroogie (1976) and Hello, ball! (1977).
McGraw also recorded the version of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat", accompanied by Peter Nero and Philly Pops.
Personal life
McGraw had a brief relationship in 1966 with Betty D'Agostino who produced one son, country music singer Tim McGraw. In his book "Ya Gotta Believe", Tug McGraw writes that he and D'Agostino only had sex, and that he immediately broke with him and left town afterward. McGraw did not recognize Tim as his son until the 17-year-old Tim, but the two then developed a close relationship. In addition to Tim, McGraw has Mark's son and daughter Carie from his first wife Phyllis Kline and a son Matthew from his wife Diane Hovenkamp-Robertson and two steps, Christopher and Ian Hovenkamp.
Death
On March 12, 2003, McGraw worked as an instructor for the Phillies during spring training when he was hospitalized with a brain tumor. When the operation was done to eliminate it, early reports indicated that the operation had been successful, that McGraw's chances of recovery were "excellent," and that he should live "long." However, the tumor is not completely excised by surgery, and the malignancy returns in an inoperable form. McGraw lived for more than nine months after the initial surgery. In what will be his last public appearance, McGraw attended the closing ceremony of the Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia on 28 September 2003 where he reinvented the Phillies World Cup final. McGraw died on January 5, 2004. The Mets played the 2004 season with the words "Ya Gotta Believe" embroidered on their left shoulder in McGraw's honor, and the Phillies wearing patches on their right shoulders displaying shamrock in honor of McGraw and banners reading "Pope" in honor of the longtime Phillies senior Paul Owens, who also died that winter. His 2004 team hit "Live Like You Were Dying" (written by Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman) recorded in the honor of his father, and featuring memorable clips of McGraw recording out the end of the 1980 World Series in a music video. The song reached # 1 on the country's country charts, and held the position for a total of seven weeks. It was named Country song Number One of 2004 by Billboard .
McGraw was cremated after his death. Nearly five years later, his son Tim McGraw grabbed a handful of his father's ashes and spread it on a pitcher mound in the current Phillies home garden, Citizens Bank Park, in Game 3 of the World Series 2008. Phillies won the game, defeating Tampa Bay Rays 5-4, towards the second World Series Championship.
Legacy
The Tug McGraw Foundation was established in 2003 to improve the quality of life of children and adults with brain tumors and in 2009 expanded programs to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). TMF collaborates and partners with other organizations so that we can accelerate new treatments and healing to improve the physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual quality of life in these debilitating conditions. The foundation demolished the new headquarters in Yountville, California on November 13, 2010.
The Foundation's work includes sponsoring a photography class at Camp Pendleton to help 15 Marines as part of the recovery process from battlefield wounds.
Awards and awards
In 1980, the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association presented an annual Good Guy Award to McGraw.
In 1983 - the 100th anniversary of the founding of Phillies - McGraw was selected as one of only two left-handed pitchers at the Phillies Centennial Team.
In 1993, McGraw was appointed into the New York Mets Hall of Fame.
In 1999, Phillies Philadelphia took McGraw into the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame.
In 2004, the Philadelphia Association of American Baseball Writers chapters commenced an annual presentation of four awards to four members of the Philadelphia Phillies franchise for "seasonal ends", including "Tug McGraw Good Guy Award".
In 2010, McGraw was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame.
See also
- List of prominent brain tumor patients
- Major League Baseball lists all the time saving leaders
References
External links
- Career and player information statistics from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-References, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors), or Ultimate Mets Database
- Tug McGraw Foundation
- History: Tribut: Tug McGraw/1944-2004. MLB.com
- The Deadball Era
- Tug McGraw SoSH
- Ancestry: The Tug McGRAW Family Group
- Drag McGraw in the Tomb Search
- Tug McGraw rides a ten-speed bike and talks about bicycle safety in 1974 in the public service announcement from the Traffic Safety Office of the State of California, which is part of the videotape series of Governors and Student Videos at the Hoover Institute Archives.
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