Tug McGraw

• Born 1944-08-30 · Died 2004-01-05

Tug McGraw was best known as a Major League Baseball player for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies. In comics, he is best remembered as the credited writer for the comic strip Scroogie (Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate), daily and Sunday, 1975-03-17 - 1977-04-23. McGraw's work there was ghosted by Dave Fisher and Neil Offen. He went on later to write for the National Lampoon Presents the Very Large Book of Comical Funnies (21st Century / Heavy Metal / National Lampoon, 1975 Series) that was reprinted up to at least 1986.