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Tom Seaver with Gil Hodges in Gil’s first camp as Mets manager, Al Lang Field, St Petersburg, March 8, 1968, by Bob Moreland of the St Petersburg Times. “No one had more impact on my career…he went about his job in a very professional manner, and it caused me to do the same with my job.” #14, #41 now retired.

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