Tug McGraw

Tug McGraw
Pitcher
Born: August 30, 1944 Martinez , United States
Died on: January 5, 2004 Brentwood , United States
Suggested: Right	Threw: Left
Debut in Major League Baseball
April 18,  1965  with the  New York Mets
Last MLB assignment
September 25,  1984  at the  Philadelphia Phillies
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Win - Loss	96-92
Earned Run Average	3.14
Strikeouts	1.109
Saves	180
Teams
New York Mets ( 1965 - 1974 ) Philadelphia Phillies ( 1975 - 1984 )
Awards
2 × All-Star ( 1972 , 1975 ) 2 × World Series winner ( 1969 , 1980 ) Member of the New York Mets Hall of Fame

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr. (born August 30, 1944 in Martinez , California , † January 5, 2004 in Brentwood , Tennessee ) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball .

Signed by the New York Mets in 1964 , he made his professional league debut for the Mets on April 18, 1965. On December 3, 1974, he was transferred to the Philadelphia Phillies with Donald Antone Hahn and David Lee Schneck in exchange for Delbert Bernard Unser , John Hardin Stearns and Guerrant McCurdy Scarce . There he played professional baseball until September 25, 1984 and at the end of his career he had 824 games, including four World Series (1969, 1973; each with the Mets ), 1980 and 1983 (with the Phillies) and winning only not in 1973 (loss in seven games against the Oakland A’s ).

His role was particularly important in the Phillies' first World Series win in 1980, when he ensured the decisive out against the Kansas City Royals batter in the ninth inning ( Willie James Wilson was the last batter of the Royals ). In the election of the best pitcher of that year ( Cy Young Trophy , National League ), the son of a former servant (who died in 1991 at the age of 80) took fifth place in the oil industry, but won the Babe Ruth Award .

At the time of his death, McGraw occupied the following placements in the various pitcher statistics of the Major League , the Phillies and the Mets: With 824 appearances, he was 24th in the list of all pitchers used in the league, and had the third most bets of all ever deployed Phillies pitchers and the fifth most of the Mets.

In 1975 he was next to Gregory Michael Luzinski , David Cash Jr. and Lawrence Robert Bowa one of four Phillies players in the All-Star Game , but was not used there to represent the National League. In 1972, on the other hand, already (in the ninth inning), as a Mets player like Willie Mays and George Thomas Seaver . For his services to his sport, the pitcher was considered in 1999 in the Philadelphia Baseball Hall of Fame , in the Hall of Fame of the Mets he was accepted in 1993.

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr. is the father of country musician Tim McGraw . In early 2004, the 59-year-old died of cancer that had been diagnosed nine months earlier on his property in Brentwood, Tennessee. McGraw Jr. was married twice, but never to Tim's mother, Elizabeth Ann D'Agostino. He left two other sons and a daughter.

In 2003 the Tug McGraw Foundation was established to support research into brain tumors.

Web links

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  ESPN  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  The Baseball Cube  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Tug McGraw in the database of Find a Grave (English)