Tommie Lee Agee was an American professional baseball player.
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24 Facts About Tommy Agee
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Tommy Agee played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1962 through 1973, most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that became known as the Miracle Mets when, they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series for one of the most improbable upsets in World Series history.
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Tommy Agee performed two impressive defensive plays in center field to help preserve a Mets victory in the third game of the series.
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Tommy Agee played for the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros and the St Louis Cardinals.
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In 2002, Tommy Agee was posthumously inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame.
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Tommy Agee was born in Magnolia, Alabama, and played baseball and football at Mobile County Training School with future New York Mets teammate Cleon Jones.
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Tommy Agee's production fell off considerably in the second half of the season, and ended the season batting.
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Tommy Agee was hit in the head by Bob Gibson on the very first pitch thrown to a Mets batter in spring training 1968.
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Tommy Agee got his first career multi-home run game in the third game of the 1969 season, against the Montreal Expos, one of which went halfway up in section 48 of the left field upper deck at Shea Stadium, a feat that was never matched.
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Cubs starter Bill Hands knocked down the first batter he faced, Tommy Agee, who had been moved into the lead-off spot in the line-up, in the bottom half of the first inning.
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Tommy Agee himself retaliated by hitting a two-run home run in the third, and scored the winning run of the game on a Wayne Garrett single in the sixth inning.
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Tommy Agee, playing the left-handed hitting Elrod Hendricks to pull, made a backhanded catch near the base of the wall in left centerfield.
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The second catch came in the seventh inning with Nolan Ryan relieving Gentry; the bases were loaded with two outs, and Tommy Agee made a headfirst dive in right centerfield on a ball hit by Paul Blair.
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Tommy Agee began the 1970 season by going on a 20-game hitting streak from April 16 to May 9.
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Tommy Agee won his second Gold Glove award, making him the first African-American to win a Gold Glove in both leagues.
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Tommy Agee was traded from the Mets to the Houston Astros for Rich Chiles and Buddy Harris at the Winter Meetings on November 27,1972.
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Tommy Agee was dealt from the Cardinals to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Pete Richert at the Winter Meetings on December 5,1973.
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Tommy Agee was known as the most active former Met, taking part in many charitable events and children's baseball clinics around both the New York area and Mobile.
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Tommy Agee appeared as himself in a 1999 episode of Everybody Loves Raymond along with several other members of the 1969 Mets.
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Tommy Agee was later inducted into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
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Tommy Agee met his wife Maxcine at a nightclub and restaurant he ran.
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Tommy Agee suffered a heart attack while leaving a Midtown Manhattan office building on January 22,2001, and died later that day at Bellevue Hospital Center, aged 58.
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Tommy Agee was posthumously inducted into the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 2002.
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