Tommie Lee Agee (August 9, 1942 – January 22, 2001) was an American professional
baseball
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player. He played in
Major League Baseball
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as a
center fielder
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from through , most notably as a member of the
New York Mets
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team that became known as the
Miracle Mets when, they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored
Baltimore Orioles
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in the
1969 World Series
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for one of the most improbable upsets in
World Series
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history. Agee performed two impressive defensive plays in center field to help preserve a Mets victory in the third game of the series.
A two-time
Major League All-Star player, Agee was also a two-time
Gold Glove Award
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winner and, was named the
AL Rookie of the Year
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in 1966 as a member of the
Chicago White Sox
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. He also played for the
Cleveland Indians
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,
Houston Astros
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and the
St. Louis Cardinals. In 2002, Agee was posthumously inducted into the
New York Mets Hall of Fame
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.
Early life
Agee was born in
Magnolia, Alabama
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Geography
Magnolia is located at and has an elevation of .
Notable person
* Tommie Agee, former Major League Baseball player, who is known for two of his catches ...
, and played
baseball
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and football at Mobile County Training School with future
New York Mets
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teammate
Cleon Jones. After one season at
Grambling State University (), Agee signed with the
Cleveland Indians
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for a $60,000 bonus.
Career
Cleveland Indians
After two seasons in the Indians' farm system with the AAA
Portland Beavers, Agee received a September call-up to Cleveland in . With the Indians already behind 11-1 to the
Minnesota Twins
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, Agee made his major league debut on September 14 at
Metropolitan Stadium
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pinch-hitting for
pitcher
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Bill Dailey
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in the ninth inning. He received September call-ups to the majors the following two seasons as well, playing a total of 31 games with the Indians in which he batted .170 with one
home run
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and five
runs batted in
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. Following the season, he was dealt to the
Chicago White Sox
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with
Tommy John as part of a three team blockbuster trade between the Indians, White Sox and
Kansas City Athletics that returned
All-Star Rocky Colavito
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to the Indians.
Chicago White Sox
Agee batted just .226 with the
Pacific Coast League
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's
Indianapolis Indians
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, and .158 in ten games with the White Sox in . After earning the starting
center fielder
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job in
spring training
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, he hit a two-run home run in the season opener, and was batting .264 with nine home runs and 38 RBIs to be named the White Sox's sole representative at the
1966 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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. He ended the season with a .273
batting average, 22 home runs and 86 RBIs to earn
American League Rookie of the Year
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honors, while his defense in
center field
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earned him a
Gold Glove
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. Although he was technically in his 5th major league season, MLB's classification of a rookie is determined by plate appearances and time on a major league roster. Agee's September call-ups had been so brief and his playing time so scarce that he was still eligible for the award.
Agee was batting .247 with ten home runs and 35 RBIs to earn his second consecutive All-Star selection in . His production fell off considerably in the second half of the season (he hit only four home runs after the All-Star break), and ended the season batting .234 with 52 RBIs. Though they finished the season in fourth place, Chicago finished only three games back of the first place
Boston Red Sox
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, and battled Boston, the
Detroit Tigers
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and Minnesota Twins until the final week of the season. On a team loaded with pitching and short on offense (no regular batted over .241), the team's lack of offense possibly cost the White Sox the
American League
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pennant.
To alleviate this problem, the White Sox imported perennial .300 hitter
Tommy Davis, along with pitcher
Jack Fisher
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and two minor leaguers, from the New York Mets for Agee and
Al Weis
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.
New York Mets
Agee was hit in the head by
Bob Gibson
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on the very first pitch thrown to a Mets batter in spring training . At the beginning of the regular season, he went 0-for-10 in a 24-inning affair with the
Houston Astros
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that saw his batting average go from .313 to .192. It led to an 0-for-34 slump that brought his average down to .102. For the season, he batted .217 with five home runs and 17 RBIs.
1969 season
Agee got his first career multi-home run game in the third game of the season, against the
Montreal Expos
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, one of which went halfway up in section 48 of the left field upper deck at
Shea Stadium, a feat that was never matched. Expos
right fielder
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Mack Jones
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said the ball was still rising when it came into contact with the stands. To commemorate the home run, there was a painted sign in that section of the stadium with Agee's name and uniform number and the date. He also had his first
four-hit game on May 2 (four for four with a
walk
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and a home run).
By May 21, Agee was batting over .300, and the Mets won their third game in a row for a .500 winning percentage 36 games into the season for the first time in franchise history. This was followed by a five-game losing streak that saw the Mets fall into fourth place in the newly aligned
National League East
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.
The Mets then went on an 11-game winning streak that included a two-home run, four-hit performance by Agee against the
San Francisco Giants
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in the final game of the streak. By this point, the Mets were in second place, seven games back of the
Chicago Cubs
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.
The Mets were two and a-half games back on September 8 when the Cubs came to Shea to open a crucial two game series with the Mets. Cubs starter
Bill Hands knocked down the first batter he faced, Agee, who had been moved into the lead-off spot in the line-up, in the bottom half of the first inning.
Jerry Koosman hit the next Cubs batter he faced,
Ron Santo
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, in the hand, breaking it. 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
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single
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in the sixth inning.
The Mets swept the Expos in a
double header on September 10. Coupled with a Cubs loss, the Mets moved into first place for the first time ever during the
1969 season. The Mets would not relinquish their lead from this point. On September 24, the New York Mets clinched the NL East as
Donn Clendenon
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hit two home runs in a 6-0 Mets win over
Steve Carlton
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and the
St. Louis Cardinals (who struck out a record 19 Mets nine days earlier in a losing effort). For the season, Agee batted .271 while leading his team with 26 home runs, 97 runs scored and 76 RBIs. Along with
Cy Young Award
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winner
Tom Seaver and Cleon Jones, he was one of three Mets to finish in the top ten in NL MVP Award balloting,
being also named the ''Sporting News'' NL Comeback Player of the Year.
1969 World Series
Agee batted .357 with two home runs and four RBIs in the Mets' three-game sweep of the
Atlanta Braves
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in the
1969 National League Championship Series
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. The Mets were heavy
underdogs
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heading into the
World Series
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against the
Baltimore Orioles
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. In Game 3 (the first World Series home game in Mets history), with the series tied 1–1, Agee had what ''
Sports Illustrated
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'' called the greatest single performance by a center fielder in World Series history. In the first inning, Agee hit a leadoff home run off
Jim Palmer
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for what would eventually be the game-winning hit and RBI, as the Mets shut out the Orioles, 5–0. In the same game, Agee also made two catches that potentially saved five runs. The first catch came in the fourth inning with Gary Gentry pitching and two outs and runners on first and third. Agee, playing the left-handed hitting
Elrod Hendricks to pull, made a backhanded catch near the base of the wall in left centerfield. The second catch came in the seventh inning with
Nolan Ryan relieving Gentry; the bases were loaded with two outs, and Agee made a headfirst dive in right centerfield on a ball hit by
Paul Blair.
1970–72
Agee began the season by going on a 20-game
hitting streak from April 16 to May 9. He enjoyed one of the finest games of his career on June 12, when he went four for five with two home runs and four runs scored, and he would go on to be named
NL Player of the Month
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for June with a .364 batting average, 11 home runs, and 30 RBI. He also
hit for the cycle on July 6. Agee displayed his spectacular and daring base running in the 10th inning in the NY Mets 2-1 win over the LA Dodgers when he stole second, took third on a wild pitch and surprised every one when he stole home for the victory! For the season, Agee batted .286, and established a Mets season record for hits with 182, runs with 107, and
stolen bases
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with 31. He also won his second Gold Glove award, making him the first
African-American
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to win a Gold Glove in both leagues.
Chronic knee injuries hampered Agee in and , though he still batted .285 and tied for the Mets lead with 14 home runs in 1971. In 1972, he finished second on the Mets with 47 RBIs despite batting only .227.
Later career
Agee was traded from the Mets to the Houston Astros for
Rich Chiles
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Chiles was drafted by the Houston Astros in the second round of the 1968 Major League ...
and
Buddy Harris
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at the
Winter Meetings on November 27, 1972. He faced the Mets for the first time in his career on April 24, and went two for three with a walk and a run scored in the Astros' 4-2 victory. He was batting .235 with eight home runs and 15 RBIs when the Astros dealt him to the
St. Louis Cardinals on August 18, who were in a battle with the Mets and
Pittsburgh Pirates
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in the NL East.
He was dealt from the Cardinals to the
Los Angeles Dodgers
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for
Pete Richert
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at the Winter Meetings on December 5, 1973. He was released during spring training. Though he never made a regular season appearance with the Dodgers, his final
baseball card was #630T in the
1974 Topps
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Traded series, which depicted him as a Dodger.
Career statistics
Retirement
After retirement, he operated the Outfielder's Lounge near Shea Stadium. Agee was also 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. He appeared as himself in a episode of ''
Everybody Loves Raymond'' along with several other members of the 1969 Mets.
Tommie visited Shea Stadium often and appeared at old timers games and card shows. He was later inducted into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
Personal life
Agee met his wife Maxcine at a nightclub and restaurant he ran.
The couple had a daughter, Jnelle.
Agee suffered a
heart attack
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while leaving a Midtown Manhattan office building on January 22, 2001, and died later that day at
Bellevue Hospital Center, aged 58.
He was buried in Pine Crest Cemetery in
Mobile, Alabama
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.
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Legacy
Agee was posthumously inducted into the
New York Mets Hall of Fame
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in .
A middle school was built on the property of Agee's former nightclub in
East Elmhurst, Queens. It opened in 2022 and was called the Tommie L. Agee Educational Campus in his honor.
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See also
* List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
* List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
In baseball, completing the cycle is the accomplishment of hitting a single, a double, a triple, and a home run in the same game. In terms of frequency, the cycle is roughly as common as a no-hitter; ''Baseball Digest'' calls it "one of the ra ...
References
External links
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