Sports Stars on Teams You Don't Remember

By Ryan Tofil March 13, 2018 at 2:28pm

Tom Seaver

Happy 73rd Birthday to Hall of Famer Tom Seaver who pitched his final big league game at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto on September 19, 1986 as a member of the Boston Red Sox. pic.twitter.com/iKr5vOLw43

— Kevin Glew (@coopincanada) November 17, 2017

Tom Seaver will be remembered as one of the greatest players in Mets history, but did you know that Tom Seaver was on the Boston Red Sox during the historic 1986 World Series against the Mets? That year, the 41-year-old appeared in 16 games for the Red Sox during his twentieth and final season. Unfortunately, a knee injury prevented him from playing in that series and he did not re-sign with Boston. He did rejoin the Mets in 1987 but decided to retire after three poor performances in exhibition games, saying “I’ve used up all the competitive pitches in my arm!”

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Ryan Tofil lived all of his life in Western New York before graduating college and moving to Arizona in 2014 to work for the nonprofit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

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Ryan Tofil's experience on The Western Journal goes back to 2014 when he was an intern for the non-profit Western Center for Journalism. In 2015, he became the director of Liftable.com, and soon its sister website ThoughtfulWomen.org. These websites eventually combined and became one of the most popular lifestyle websites in the world, at one point being ranked inside the top 200 websites in America by Alexa.com. Liftable.com lives on today as a section of The Western Journal. Since 2018, Ryan has been involved with PatriotDepot.com, the exclusive provider of The Western Journal merchandise and other essential patriotic products, moving to the site full-time in early 2019.

Outside of work, Ryan loves to play chess, sports, and video games; usually while smoking a cigar. He is a proud bird-owner and aquarium aficionado, and always jokes about needing concealed carry permits for his fists, despite only having been in one fight in his life and losing quite badly. His claim to fame is having possibly been the worst NCAA baseball player in the country, riding the bench for a DIII team that went 3-31. He loved every second of it.

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Western New York

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A.S., Communication, Jamestown Community College

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Phoenix, Arizona

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English, barely. Even worse at Spanish.

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