Jay Hook

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Full Name: James Wesley Hook	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 2"/182	First Game: September 3, 1957
Birthdate: November 18, 1936	Final Game: May 3, 1964
Birthplace: Waukegan, Illinois	MLB Experience: 8 years
Bat/Throw: Left/Right

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2 Statistics
3 Transactions
4 Trivia
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[edit] Biography

Born on November 18, 1936 in Waukegan, Illinois, Jay Hook (James Wesley Hook) played for the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets over the course of his 8 year career. Hook broke into the bigs on September 3, 1957 with the Cincinnati Reds, and put up a 5.13 ERA in 79 innings pitched in 1959, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Jay Hook's best season was 1960, when he posted a 4.50 ERA, won 11 games and struck out 103 batters.

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[edit] Pitching Stats

Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1957	CIN	N	3	2	0	1	4.50	6	7	5	0	0	0	10	6	0	8	0	1	0
1958	CIN	N	1	1	0	1	12.00	5	4	4	0	0	0	3	3	2	2	0	0	0
1959	CIN	N	17	15	5	5	5.13	37	46	45	4	0	0	79	79	11	39	1	1	3
1960	CIN	N	36	33	11	18	4.50	103	119	111	10	2	0	222	222	31	73	7	2	5
1961	CIN	N	22	5	1	3	7.76	36	55	54	0	0	0	62.2	83	14	22	2	1	5
1962	NY	N	37	34	8	19	4.84	113	137	115	13	0	0	213.2	230	31	71	4	9	8
1963	NY	N	41	20	4	14	5.48	89	104	93	3	0	1	152.2	168	21	53	2	6	9
1964	NY	N	3	2	0	1	9.31	5	10	10	0	0	0	9.2	17	2	7	0	2	0
Total			160	112	29	62	5.23	394	482	437	30	2	1	752.2	808	112	275	16	22	30

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	TP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1957	CIN	N	P	3	2	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1958	CIN	N	P	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000
1959	CIN	N	P	17	15	79	7	8	1	2	0	0	2	3	0	.938
1960	CIN	N	P	36	33	222	19	30	1	5	0	3	12	6	0	.980
1961	CIN	N	P	22	5	62.2	10	4	0	0	0	0	3	3	0	1.000
1962	NY	N	P	37	34	213.2	22	31	3	2	0	3	12	8	1	.946
1963	NY	N	P	41	20	152.2	11	20	3	1	0	3	5	5	2	.912
1964	NY	N	P	3	2	9.2	1	3	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	1.000
Total			P	160	112	752.2	72	97	8	10	0	9	40	25	3	.955

[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SB	IBB	GDP
1957	CIN	N	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1958	CIN	N	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	CIN	N	19	24	2	3	0	1	.125	.160	.125	0	0	1	9	0	2	0	0	0
1960	CIN	N	36	72	3	6	0	3	.083	.165	.083	0	0	7	24	0	6	0	0	1
1961	CIN	N	22	15	1	2	0	0	.133	.133	.133	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0
1962	NY	N	41	69	6	14	0	5	.203	.286	.203	0	0	8	24	0	6	0	0	0
1963	NY	N	41	38	4	9	0	1	.237	.268	.263	1	0	2	13	0	2	0	0	1
1964	NY	N	3	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Total			166	225	16	34	0	10	.151	.213	.156	1	0	18	77	0	16	0	0	2

[edit] Transactions

Signed as an amateur free agent (bonus baby) by Cincinnati Reds (August 17, 1957).
Selected by New York Mets from Cincinnati Reds in the expansion draft (October 10, 1961).
Traded by New York Mets with a player to be named later to Milwaukee Braves in exchange for Roy McMillan (May 8, 1964); Milwaukee Braves received Adrian Garrett (June 17, 1964).

[edit] Trivia

Hook is the first pitcher in New York Mets history to record a win.

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