June 16, 2025

Tom Seaver: The Midnight Massacre

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Commemorate one of baseball's most shocking trades with five questions about Tom Seaver and the day that traumatized Mets fans forever. Learn about "Tom Terrific's" Hall of Fame career, the 1977 trade that broke hearts, and his lasting impact on baseball history. Enjoy Five Daily Trivia Questions commercial-free at caloroga.com/plus.

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Calarogus Shark Media. Greetings trivia fans.

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I'm Mark Allison, and today we're commemorating one of the

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most shocking trades in baseball history, the day Tom Sever

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was traded from the New York Mets on June fifteenth,

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nineteen seventy seven.

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Question one, What was Tom.

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Sever's nickname during his Hall of Fame pitching career? Question two?

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To which team was Tom Sever traded by the Mets

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in what became known as the Midnight Massacre?

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Question three?

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How many Cy Young Awards did Tom Sever win during

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his career as the best pitcher in his league?

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Question four?

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In what year did Tom Sever help lead the Miracle

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Mets to their first World Series championship?

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Question five?

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What was Tom Sever's jersey number that was retired by

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the New York Mets. We'll be right back with these

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Diamond answers after this break. Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's

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reveal today's answers. Question one, What was Tom Sever's nickname?

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Answer Tom Terrific and the franchise. Sever earned these nicknames

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for his dominant pitching and his role as the face

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of the Mets franchise. He was the team's first true

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superstar and is widely considered the greatest pitcher in Mets history.

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Question two to which team was Sever traded? Answer the

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Cincinnati Reds. The trade, orchestrated by Mets management on June fifteenth,

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nineteen seventy seven, sent shockwaves through New York.

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The deal was part of several.

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Moves that day, earning the nickname Midnight Massacre for devastating

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the team's roster and fan morale.

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Question three.

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How many Cy Young Awards did Sever win? Answer three.

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Sever won the National League's Cy Young Award in nineteen

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sixty nine, nineteen seventy three, and nineteen seventy five, all

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while playing for the Mets. He finished in the top

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five in cy Young voting nine times during his career,

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demonstrating his sustained excellence.

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Question four. When did Sever help the Mets win the

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World Series? Answer? Nineteen sixty nine.

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Sever was the ace of the miracle Mets team that

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went from one hundred losses in nineteen sixty two to

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World champions in nineteen sixty nine. He went twenty five

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and seven with a two point two to one ERA

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that season and won his first cy Young Award. Question five,

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What was Sever's retired jersey number, answer forty one. The

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Mets retired his number in nineteen eighty eight, and in

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twenty nineteen they renamed the street outside Cityfield Tom seaver Way.

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Sever was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in

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nineteen ninety two, with the highest voting percentage at that time,

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ninety eight point eight four percent. That concludes today's five

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daily trivia questions. I'm Mark Allison in Today's questions were

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