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Tug McGraw

タグ・マグロー　/　たぐ・まぐろー

American baseball player

August 30, 1944 – January 5, 2004　・　Martinez, California, United States

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baseball player

My Take

What I admire most about Tug McGraw is the quiet craft of the relief pitcher. Nineteen big-league seasons with the Mets and Phillies is not luck; it is durability and nerve, the willingness to walk into the highest-pressure moments and shut the door. He came up through a community college and somehow lasted nearly two decades at the top, which tells me everything about his competitiveness. Closers rarely get the romance that starters do, but I think theirs is the harder temperament. McGraw left us far too early in 2004, yet that bullpen toughness still feels like the heart of the game to me.

Overview

Frank Edwin "Tug" McGraw Jr. (August 30, 1944 – January 5, 2004) was an American professional baseball relief pitcher. McGraw played in 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1965 to 1984, for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Tug McGraw
Name (Japanese): タグ・マグロー
Reading: たぐ・まぐろー
Born: August 30, 1944 – January 5, 2004
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Virgo / Monkey
Origin: Martinez, California, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: baseball player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Solano Community College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A6

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