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Originally Posted by sskink
It was also Dick Young whose "gossip" about Seaver's wife and Nolan Ryan's wife put Tom Seaver over the edge so he'd walk away from a contract extension with the Mets and demand to be traded to the Reds.
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You're absolutely right. Someone with knowledge of the situation told me that Seaver informed the Mets management that he would retire at season's end rather than play another year in New York.