Editors note: The following story originally was published on March 11, 2019. Tom Seaver died Monday from complications of Lewy body dementia and COVID-19 at age 75.
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. • Long before anyone thought it could end in a tie and decades before baseball tried to make it “count,” the All-Star Game plunged ahead into the 15th inning at Anaheim Stadium and gave Tim McCarver a chance he never had before and would never have again.
His hand went white as a result.
Tony Perez ripped a solo home run off American League reliever Catfish Hunter to give the NL a 2-1 lead in the top of the 15th, and that brought first-time All-Star Tom Seaver into the 1967 Midsummer Classic to close out the win.