McGraw, Tug

McGraw, Tug
▪ 2005
Frank Edwin McGraw, Jr. 
      American baseball player (b. Aug. 30, 1944, Martinez, Calif.—d. Jan. 5, 2004, Nashville, Tenn.), was a relief pitching hero for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies professional baseball teams. Though a failure as a starter, McGraw learned to pitch a screwball and then became a reliever in 1969, the year that the “Miracle Mets” won their first world championship; four years later his late-season pitching and his slogan “You gotta believe!” inspired the Mets' rise from last place in August to the National League pennant. During 1975–84 he pitched for the Phillies as they made it to the playoffs for six seasons, including two National League championships; his finest season was 1980, when he pitched in 57 games with an extraordinary 1.46 earned run average and clinched Philadelphia's World Series victory by striking out the last batter of the last game.

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