Jack Lynch

John H. Lynch
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Born: February 5, 1857 in New York, NY
Died: April 20, 1923 in Bronx, NY

 

In the American Association championship season of 1884, Jack had a spectacularly successful season, matching teammate Tim Keefe almost pitch-for-pitch, both of them winning an astounding 37 games. The next year Keefe was gone to the Giants, but Lynch remained through the rest of the Mets' lean history--the only pitcher to participate in each of the Mets' five seasons. In 1887, all of the New York pitchers were so uniformly bad that Jack was able to claim his only Mets Pitcher of the Year award, by being slightly less bad than the rest of the field. But he would have made the Metropolitans' all-time team anyway, on the strength of that marvelous 1884 season. The picture of Jack shown here is a detail of an 1882 team photo found on Doc Lawson's Vintage Base Ball Page.

  

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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
1881 Buf NL  20  19  17  165.2  10   9 .526  203  112  66  32  29   0  0  3.59
1883 *METS*  29  29  29  255.0  13  15 .464  263  161 116 119  25   1  0  4.09
1884 *METS*  55  54  54  496.0  37  15 .712  420  226 147 292  42   5  0  2.67
1885 *METS*  44  43  43  379.0  23  21 .523  410  243 152 177  42   1  0  3.61
1886 *METS*  51  50  50  432.2  20  30 .400  485  307 190 193 116   1  0  3.95
1887 *METS*  21  21  21  187.0   7  14 .333  245  158 106  45  36   0  0  5.10
1890 Bro AA   1   1   1    9.0   0   1 .000   22   18  12   1   5   0  0 12.00
METS TOTALS 200 197 197 1749.2 100  95 .513 1823 1095 711 826 261   8  0  3.66
OTHER CLUBS  21  20  18  174.2  10  10 .500  225  130  78  33  34   0  0  4.02
CAREER TOTS 221 217 215 1924.1 110 105 .512 2048 1225 789 859 295   8  0  3.69

season highlighted in blue denotes he was selected Rounding Third's Mets Pitcher of the Year

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I own no Jack Lynch memorabilia of any kind. If you have anything, and are willing to trade or donate it, contact me at Rounding Third.

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