“You Gotta Believe.”
Many will remember Tug McGraw as a superlative reliever for the Philadelphia Phillies, but New Yorkers remember him as the New York Met who coined their rallying cry “You Gotta Believe.” He helped hugely in their 1969 Word Series season and their 1973 National League championship season. Both winning seasons were unexpected, shocking even. McGraw died on Monday at the age of 59 from brain cancer. You always knew when he had had a good inning; he’d bound off the mound with his glove bouncing merrily on his thigh. He did that a lot. (NY Times obituary)