OT: Met's Pitcher Jim McAndrew dead at 80

[RUScrew85]

So why not Jim McAndrew, we do way more obscure passings here.

"Across 146 games with the Mets (105 starts), the Iowa native went 36-49 but pitched to an estimable 3.54 ERA."

Jim McAndrew was also my 6th Grade teacher. He was a wonderful man. Rest in Peace Mr. McAndrew.

https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/arti...orld_series_mets_dead_at_80/s1_13237_40118350

 

[MADHAT1]

RIP Jim McAndrew

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https://www.mlb.com/player/jim-mcandrew-118509

 

[RUGuitarMan]

RIP, I remember him pitching for the Mets.

 

[rubaseball78]

Daily News published portraits of the 69 Mets. Found them on eBay a couple years ago and framed/hung all 20 in my loft. McAndrew is one of those portraits.

 

[RUScrew85]

Daily News published portraits of the 69 Mets. Found them on eBay a couple years ago and framed/hung all 20 in my loft. McAndrew is one of those portraits.

Nice.

 

[colbert17]

If I remember correctly he had a bit of an odd deliver for his time. Back then everyone was doing the "drop & drive" motion ala Seaver. He kind of had a straight front leg motion which was different.

R.I.P.

 

[BigEastPhil]

So why not Jim McAndrew, we do way more obscure passings here.

"Across 146 games with the Mets (105 starts), the Iowa native went 36-49 but pitched to an estimable 3.54 ERA."

Jim McAndrew was also my 6th Grade teacher. He was a wonderful man. Rest in Peace Mr. McAndrew.

https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/arti...orld_series_mets_dead_at_80/s1_13237_40118350

Where did he teach ? I remember him with the 69 Mets and teams from the early 70s.

 

[rubaseball78]

Nice.

If I knew how to post a pic, I would. On another wall I have 2 artists drawing, one of Shea and one of Citi Field. He didn't have one of the Polo Grounds so I found a pristine post card on ebay and framed it so I would have all 3 fields.

 

[Knight Shift]

If I remember correctly he had a bit of an odd deliver for his time. Back then everyone was doing the "drop & drive" motion ala Seaver. He kind of had a straight front leg motion which was different.

R.I.P.

RIP:
A few random things:

lost his major league debut to Bob Gibson in a 1968 spot start for the New York Mets when Nolan Ryan was called away to military duty, then beat Steve Carlton a month later for his first win
McAndrew’s first batter was future Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who singled, and McAndrew pitched around Roger Maris’ leadoff double in the fourth.

McAndrew started one of the most significant games in franchise history: a win over Montreal in September 1969 that put the long downtrodden team into first place for the first time in the franchise’s eight seasons

McAndrew didn’t appear in the postseason for the 1969 World Series champions or 1973 NL pennant winners

Some things never change for the Mets (sounds like the deGrom treatment) 😏 :

The Mets didn’t score a run while McAndrew was on the mound as he lost his first four big league starts, and he dropped to 0-5 with a 13-3 loss to San Francisco and future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal.

Some pics:
NOTE- EDITED TO GET RID OF PICS THAT WERE SEAVER (THANKS GOOGLE, BUT SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THE #41):

 

[colbert17]

RIP:
A few random things:

lost his major league debut to Bob Gibson in a 1968 spot start for the New York Mets when Nolan Ryan was called away to military duty, then beat Steve Carlton a month later for his first win
McAndrew’s first batter was future Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who singled, and McAndrew pitched around Roger Maris’ leadoff double in the fourth.

McAndrew started one of the most significant games in franchise history: a win over Montreal in September 1969 that put the long downtrodden team into first place for the first time in the franchise’s eight seasons

McAndrew didn’t appear in the postseason for the 1969 World Series champions or 1973 NL pennant winners

Some things never change for the Mets (sounds like the deGrom treatment) 😏 :

The Mets didn’t score a run while McAndrew was on the mound as he lost his first four big league starts, and he dropped to 0-5 with a 13-3 loss to San Francisco and future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal.

Some pics:

I guess I was wrong about the straight leg. He looks just like Seaver. I'm guessing Rube Walker taught all the staff that.

 

[Knight Shift]

I guess I was wrong about the straight leg. He looks just like Seaver. I'm guessing Rube Walker taught all the staff that.

Loved that era of baseball of the late 1960-to late 1970s. I just saw an "ESSO" sign over the left-center wall. I remember when Exxon was Esso, and prior to that, Humble Oil. My grandfather worked on the Humble then Esso docks in Bayonne.

 

[rudad02]

He was a pretty good chucker. RIP Jim.

 

[RUScrew85]

Where did he teach ? I remember him with the 69 Mets and teams from the early 70s.

He taught me at Twin Hills Elementary in Willingboro. Should have been 1974? 1975?

 

[Knight Shift]

He taught me at Twin Hills Elementary in Willingboro. Should have been 1974? 1975?

Did he teach because he had to, or because he wanted to? I'm guessing with his short career and salaries not as high as they are now, he had to work?

 

[newell138]

He taught me at Twin Hills Elementary in Willingboro. Should have been 1974? 1975?

That’s pretty cool. Lots of guys from that era had off season gigs too

 

[rubaseball78]

Did he teach because he had to, or because he wanted to? I'm guessing with his short career and salaries not as high as they are now, he had to work?

Salaries were not high. Billy Hands, pitcher for the Cubs, delivered fuel oil to my house during winters for Keller Oil.

 

[RUScrew85]

Did he teach because he had to, or because he wanted to? I'm guessing with his short career and salaries not as high as they are now, he had to work?

I'm guessing he wasn't retired on a handful of early 1970s years of salary. Plus that's not really the kind of discussion one has with 6th graders. It took him most of the year to share his baseball time with just a few of us. He wasn't a self promoter by any means.

 

[RUScrew85]

That’s pretty cool. Lots of guys from that era had off season gigs too

We had a couple of the early 1970's Phillies living in town for a while. Bob Boone, Luzinski (I think) - he coached Baseball (and Football?) at Hold Cross HS in S. Jersey. And a couple of others who's names I forget (Bowa maybe?).

 

[RUScrew85]

That’s pretty cool. Lots of guys from that era had off season gigs too

Pretty sure he was fully retired by the time he started teaching. But yeah everyone but a very few had second jobs to make ends meet back then.

 

[newell138]

Pretty sure he was fully retired by the time he started teaching. But yeah everyone but a very few had second jobs to make ends meet back then.

The house we just sold in OC was previously owned by Del Ennis, Phillies legend

 

[zappaa]

As a kid in the Mets clubhouse, I watched Jerry Koosman and Jim McAndrew pass the time solving mathematical equations together.

 

[RUtix4me]

Every year when MYAA did the winter sign-up at Middletown High School they would bring in a player to speak and sign autographs. I remember him being there in 1972 or 1973. I also rember Roy White doing it.

RIP Jim.

 

[colbert17]

Loved that era of baseball of the late 1960-to late 1970s. I just saw an "ESSO" sign over the left-center wall. I remember when Exxon was Esso, and prior to that, Humble Oil. My grandfather worked on the Humble then Esso docks in Bayonne.

After the war my dad worked at the Esso refinery in Linden.

 

[1stand3rd]

I guess I was wrong about the straight leg. He looks just like Seaver. I'm guessing Rube Walker taught all the staff that.

You still could be right. Two of those pictures are of Seaver.

 

[zappaa]

You still could be right. Two of those pictures are of Seaver.

There isn’t a single element between Tom and Jim similar.
Tom on today’s gun would be throwing 98 mph in the 9th inning with a low 90s slide piece.
Jim could barely break 85 on a good day.

 

[Knight Shift]

You still could be right. Two of those pictures are of Seaver.

Darn it Google. I see the #41 now. 🤦‍♀️ Fixed above.

 

[RUScrew85]

RIP:
A few random things:

lost his major league debut to Bob Gibson in a 1968 spot start for the New York Mets when Nolan Ryan was called away to military duty, then beat Steve Carlton a month later for his first win
McAndrew’s first batter was future Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who singled, and McAndrew pitched around Roger Maris’ leadoff double in the fourth.

McAndrew started one of the most significant games in franchise history: a win over Montreal in September 1969 that put the long downtrodden team into first place for the first time in the franchise’s eight seasons

McAndrew didn’t appear in the postseason for the 1969 World Series champions or 1973 NL pennant winners

Some things never change for the Mets (sounds like the deGrom treatment) 😏 :

The Mets didn’t score a run while McAndrew was on the mound as he lost his first four big league starts, and he dropped to 0-5 with a 13-3 loss to San Francisco and future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal.

Some pics:
NOTE- EDITED TO GET RID OF PICS THAT WERE SEAVER (THANKS GOOGLE, BUT SHOULD HAVE CAUGHT THE #41):

I just figured he changed numbers at one point.

 

[colbert17]

You still could be right. Two of those pictures are of Seaver.

Think about the other guys on those teams. Ryan, Koosman, Matlack, Gentry. They all seemed to get low.
All Rube Walker influence.