Tommie Agee
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Tommie Lee Agee (August 9, 1942 – January 22, 2001) was a Major League baseball center fielder.
He is credited with two of the best catches in World Series history, both of which took place in game three of the 1969 World Series.
Early life
Agee was born in Magnolia, Alabama, and with former New York Mets teammate Cleon Jones, he played baseball and football at Mobile County Training School. Agee played for the Cleveland Indians for one season (1961-1961).
Personal life
Maxcine was a decadene's husband and guest at a nightclub and restaurant where he worked. Jnelle, the couple's daughter, was born.
Aged was born in Midtown Manhattan and died later that day at Bellevue Hospital Center, aged 58. He was buried in Pine Crest Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.
Career
Agee, who spent two seasons with the AAA Portland Beavers in the Indians' farm system, was given a call up to Cleveland in 1962. Agee made his major league debut on September 14 at Metropolitan Stadium pinch-hitting for pitcher Bill Dailey in the ninth innings, with the Indians already behind 11-1 to the Minnesota Twins. He received calls from September and August for his second stint in the majors, as well as a total of 31 games with the Indians in which he batted.170 with one home run and five runs batted in. Following the 1964-19 season, Tommy John was traded to the Chicago White Sox as part of a three-team blockbuster swap between the Indians, White Sox, and Kansas City Athletics, which brought All-Star Rocky Colavito to the Indians.
In ten games with the White Sox in 1965, Agee batted just.226 with the Pacific Coast League's Indianapolis Indians, and.158 with the White Sox. He had been working in spring training for two runs in the season opener and was batting.264 with nine home runs and 38 RBIs to be named the White Sox's sole representative. He finished the year with a.273 batting average, 22 home runs, and 86 RBIs, winning American League Rookie of the Year awards, while center field defense earned him a Gold Glove. Despite being in his fifth major league season, MLB's designation of a rookie is determined by plate appearances and time on a major league roster. Agee's call-ups in September were so short and his playing time was so limited that he was still eligible for the award.
Agee was batting.247 with ten home runs and 35 RBIs in his second straight All-Star selection pick in 1967. His numbers dropped dramatically in the second half of the season (he hit just four home runs after the All-Star break) and ended the season batting.234 with 52 RBIs. Chicago played just three games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox in fourth place last season, and the Minnesota Twins defeated Boston, the Detroit Tigers, and the Minnesota Twins until the final week of the season. The White Sox's lack of offense on a team loaded with pitching and short on offense (no regular batted over.241) may have cost the team the American League pennant.
Tommy Davis, the White Sox's perennial hitter, as well as pitcher Jack Fisher and two minor leaguers from the New York Mets for Agee and Al Weis, to solve this issue.
In spring training 1968, Bob Gibson struck Agee in the head for the first time. He went 0-for-10 in a 24-inning game with the Houston Astros that saw his bat average rise from.313 to.192 in the regular season. It resulted in a 0-for-34 drop that dropped his average to.102. He batted.217 with five home runs and 17 RBIs on the season.
Agee's first home run game of the 1969 season was his first home run game of his career against the Montreal Expos, one of which went halfway up in section 48 of the left field upper deck at Shea Stadium, a feat never matched. When it first came into contact with the stands, Expos right fielder Mack Jones said the ball was still rising. Agee's name and uniform number, as well as the date, were painted in the stadium's first segment to commemorate the home run. On May 2, he played in his first four-hit game (four for four with a walk and a home run).
Agee was batting over.300 in May 21, and the Mets won their third game in a row in a row for the first time in franchise history. The Mets fell into fourth place in the newly aligned National League East after a five-game losing streak.
In the final game of the season, the Mets went on an 11-game winning streak that culminated in a two-home run, four-hit performance by Agee against the San Francisco Giants. The Mets were in second place, seven games behind the Chicago Cubs, at this time.
On September 8, the Mets were two and a half games behind when the Cubs arrived in Shea to begin a critical two-game match series with the Mets. In the bottom half of the first innings, Cubs starter Bill Hands knocked down the first batter he faced, Agee, who had been moved to the lead-off position in the lineup. Jerry Koosman broke it with Ron Santo, the next Cubs batter he faced. Agee himself retaliated by scoring a two-run home run in the third innings, and Wayne Garrett singletched the game's winning run on a Wayne Garrett single in the sixth inning.
On September 10, the Mets swept the Expos in a double header. The Mets soared to first place for the first time ever during the 1969 season, after being paired with a Cubs loss. The Mets will not relinquish their lead from this point. Donn Clendenon scored two home runs in a 6-0 Mets victory over Steve Carlton and the St. Louis Cardinals on September 24, the New York Mets clinched the NL East on Monday. (Who beat the St. Louis Cardinals and saw out a record 19 Mets in a losing effort) Agee batted.271 on the season, leading his team with 26 home runs, 97 runs scored, and 76 RBIs. He was one of three Mets to finish in the top ten in NL MVP Awards balloting, alongside Cy Young Award winner Tom Seaver and Cleon Jones, who was also named the Sporting News NL Comeback Player of the Year.
In the 1999 National League Championship Series, Agee batted.357 with two home runs and four RBIs. The Mets were strong underdogs going into the World Series against the Baltimore Orioles. Agee had the highest single game by a center fielder in World Series home games in Mets history in Game 3 (the first World Series home game in Mets history), with the series tied 1–1. As the Mets shut down the Orioles, Agee hit a leadoff home run off Jim Palmer in the first inning for what would later be the game-winning hit and RBI. Agee also caught two catches that could have saved five runs in the same game. With Gary Gentry pitching and two outs and runners on first and third, the first catch was caught in the fourth inning. Agee, playing left-handed against Elrod Hendricks, pulled a backhanded catch near the base of the wall in left centerfield. With Nolan Ryan's help from Gentry, the bases were packed with two outs, and Agee made a headfirst dive in right centerfield on a ball hit by Paul Blair in the seventh innings.
Agee began in 1970 by going on a 20-game streak from April 16 to May 9. On June 12, he played one of his finest games of his career, going four for five with two home runs and four runs scored, and 30 RBI; he will go on to be named NL Player of the Month for June with a.364 batting average, 11 home runs, and 30 RBI. On July 6, he was again on the cycle. In the 10th inning of the NY Mets 2-1 victory over the LA Dodgers, Agee showed his spectacular and daring base running in the tenth innings, took third on a wild pitch, and stunned every one when he stole home for the win. Agee batted.286, establishing a Mets season record for hits with 182, runs with 107, and stolen bases with 31. He also earned his second Gold Glove award, making him the first African-American to win a Gold Glove in both leagues.
Agee was hampered by chronic knee injuries in 1971 and 1972, but he still batted.285 and tied for the Mets lead with 14 home runs in 1971. Despite batting only.227, he finished second on the Mets in 1972 with 47 RBIs.
Rich Chiles and Buddy Harris were moved from the Mets to the Houston Astros at the Winter Meetings on November 27, 1972. On April 24, he met the Mets for the first time in his career, and the Astros won by two runs and a walk. When the Astros sold him to the St. Louis Cardinals on August 18, they were in a playoff match with the Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL East. He was batting.235 with eight home runs and 15 RBIs.
Pete Richert went from the Cardinals to the Los Angeles Dodgers for the Winter Meetings on December 5, 1973. He was released in spring training. Despite the fact that he never made a regular season appearance with the Dodgers, his last baseball card was #630T in the 1974 Topps Traded series, which depicted him as a Dodger.