Jay Hook
James Wesley Hook
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 182 lbs.
Born: November 18, 1936 in Waukegan, IL
Signed: 1957 by the Cincinnati Redlegs
Acquired: via the Expansion Draft from the Cincinnati Reds, October 1961
Departed: traded to the Milwaukee Braves with a player to be named later
(Adrian Garrett) for Roy
McMillan, May 1964
Jay was a mainstay in the Mets' rotation
for their first two seasons, and was the winning pitcher in the first game the
Mets ever won. He's pictured below on 1960 Topps; he had career bests in
innings, wins, shutouts, and ERA that year.
Up here is 1962 Topps.
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PITCHING RECORD (team-leading
totals in red) YEAR CLUB G
GS CG IP W L PCT H
R ER SO BB ShO SV
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This is a list of the cards of this player
that I had in my Mets collection before I transferred the ownership of said
collection to another diligent and capable Mets fan. The cards that are listed
in light gray print and struck through are cards that were sold for charity
prior to my divestiture. The cards
listed in white text are the ones that still
remained until that final deal. Items listed in green I kept out of the deal,
just so I'd have something to display in my office and den. At the bottom and listed in orange text are
cards that I picked up after the dealing was done, in order
to maintain a certain continuity at this site; that is, so I'd have a
card to show you at the top of the page, and maybe in the autographs and
game-used areas. If an orange card is
struck through, it has also departed the collection. I’m still accepting donations, should you
feel so moved. Contact me by following
this link: NYMHall.
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1960 Topps |
1960 Topps #187
1961 Topps #162
1962 Jay
Publishing Mets
1962 Topps #94
1963 Topps #469
1964 Topps #361
1982 Renata Galasso 20 Years of New York Met
Baseball #23
1991 Nobody Beats the Wiz Mets #188
2013 Topps Heritage Real Ones #ROA-JH (autographed)
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"He has as much stuff as
any pitcher in baseball, but he won't brush them back. If he pitched like Sal
Maglie nobody would beat him." -- Casey Stengel 3 |
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"I'm 55, and grew up in
Grayslake, Illinois, Jay Hook's so-called home town. His dad Del and his
uncle ran separate drug stores in town—odd, huh? "At any rate, the summer
of his first victory as a Met, Jay was scheduled by the town fathers to drive
down the Mayberry-like Grayslake main street with the Mets team. The
town—very much a Mayberry setting—had Center Street asphalted especially for the
occasion. "So the 4th of July came,
and round the corner on that 90-degree-hot day came Casey Stengel driving the
Budweiser wagon with Jay by his side and the rest of the Mets in the back.
The most memorable part was the look on the faces of the town fathers at the
reviewing stand as the Clydesdales absolutely chewed up the hot pavement when
they strode by! "By the way, I always
cherished those Hook cards and never once put one in my bike spokes." — Phillip Perlinski
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