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 here on 1960 Topps; he had career bests in innings, wins, shutouts, and ERA that year.
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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 ERA 1958 Cin NL 1 1 0 3.0 0 1 .000 3 4 4 5 2 0 0 12.00 1959 Cin NL 17 15 4 79.0 5 5 .500 79 46 45 37 39 0 0 5.13 1960 Cin NL 36 33 10 222.0 11 18 .379 222 119 111 103 73 2 0 4.50 1961 Cin NL 22 5 0 62.2 1 3 .250 83 55 54 36 22 0 0 7.76 1962 *METS* 37 34 13 213.2 8 19 .296 230 137 115 113 71 0 0 4.84 1963 *METS* 41 20 3 152.2 4 14 .222 168 104 93 89 53 0 1 5.48 1964 *METS* 3 2 0 9.2 0 1 .000 17 10 10 5 7 0 0 9.31 METS TOTALS 81 56 16 376.0 12 34 .261 415 251 218 207 131 0 1 5.22 OTHER CLUBS 79 56 14 376.2 17 28 .378 393 231 219 187 144 2 0 5.23 CAREER TOTS 160 112 30 752.2 29 62 .319 808 482 437 394 275 2 1 5.23 |
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This is a list of the Jay Hook cards that I already have in my collection. If you have any cards that are not listed here, and you are willing to donate or trade them, contact me at
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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 4 |
1960 Topps #187
1961 Topps #162
1962 Jay Publishing Mets
1962 Topps #94
1964 Topps #361
1982 Renata Galasso 20 Years of New York Met Baseball #23
1991 WIZ Mets #188
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