Comments on: The Phillies Top 20 Individual Seasons , # 17 : Tug McGraw, 1980 http://www.reclinergm.com/the-phillies-top-20-individual-seasons-17-tug-mcgraw-1980/ Philly sports blog for diehard Sixers & Phillies fans Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:25:29 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Phillies Top 20 Individual Seasons,#11A: OF Billy Hamilton, 1894 http://www.reclinergm.com/the-phillies-top-20-individual-seasons-17-tug-mcgraw-1980/#comment-26904 Phillies Top 20 Individual Seasons,#11A: OF Billy Hamilton, 1894 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:32:51 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=6042#comment-26904 [...] #17 – Tug McGraw, 1980 [...] [...] #17 – Tug McGraw, 1980 [...]

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]]> By: The Phillies Top 20 Individual Seasons , # 16 : John Denny, 1983 http://www.reclinergm.com/the-phillies-top-20-individual-seasons-17-tug-mcgraw-1980/#comment-18423 The Phillies Top 20 Individual Seasons , # 16 : John Denny, 1983 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:17:47 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=6042#comment-18423 [...] – Tug McGraw, 1980 #18 - Greg Luzinksi, 1977 #19 - Gavvy Cravath, 1913 #20 - Lenny Dykstra, [...] [...] – Tug McGraw, 1980 #18 - Greg Luzinksi, 1977 #19 - Gavvy Cravath, 1913 #20 - Lenny Dykstra, [...]

]]> By: jjg http://www.reclinergm.com/the-phillies-top-20-individual-seasons-17-tug-mcgraw-1980/#comment-16904 jjg Sun, 31 May 2009 01:16:53 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=6042#comment-16904 I love Tug McGraw, the sadly departed scroogie-throwin', John Jamison swilling, fun-loving  human being.  Big-hearted, down-to-earth person.  Big-hearted, down-to-the-wire player.  An all-time Phillie.  Nice choice, Pete.  Philly was very lucky to adopt the free-spirited Californian and important Met in the prime of his career.  I recommend his autobiography "Ya Gotta Believe" (co-written by Don Yaeger, 2004, Signet) - you'll be enlightened and enriched.       I love Tug McGraw, the sadly departed scroogie-throwin’, John Jamison swilling, fun-loving  human being.  Big-hearted, down-to-earth person.  Big-hearted, down-to-the-wire player.  An all-time Phillie.  Nice choice, Pete.  Philly was very lucky to adopt the free-spirited Californian and important Met in the prime of his career.  I recommend his autobiography “Ya Gotta Believe” (co-written by Don Yaeger, 2004, Signet) – you’ll be enlightened and enriched.      

]]> By: Drolz http://www.reclinergm.com/the-phillies-top-20-individual-seasons-17-tug-mcgraw-1980/#comment-16857 Drolz Sat, 30 May 2009 01:28:10 +0000 http://www.reclinergm.com/?p=6042#comment-16857 Hey Pete,  Excellent choice!  I saw Tugger pitch in '80 and two things come to mind: 1) His stats are all the more impressive when you consider he was running on fumes at the end of the year. He practically willed his way to the championship. 2) That screwball of his. You have to be one to throw one, and he succeeded at both.  (Hey, how about a Top 20 Locker Room Personalities feature? Tug would definitely be around the top of that list.)  By the way, does anyone throw a screwball anymore? Seemed more common back in the '80s but we don't hear much (if anything) about it nowadays. Hey Pete, 

Excellent choice!  I saw Tugger pitch in ‘80 and two things come to mind:

1) His stats are all the more impressive when you consider he was running on fumes at the end of the year. He practically willed his way to the championship.

2) That screwball of his. You have to be one to throw one, and he succeeded at both.  (Hey, how about a Top 20 Locker Room Personalities feature? Tug would definitely be around the top of that list.) 

By the way, does anyone throw a screwball anymore? Seemed more common back in the ’80s but we don’t hear much (if anything) about it nowadays.

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