Home


All-Time Roster Mugshots Player Awards Transactions Managers and Coaches Mets Staff Birthplaces Oldest Living Mets Necrology


Game Results Opening Day Walkoff Wins & Losses Mets in the Postseason No-Hitters and One-Hitters Mets All-Stars Opponents and Ballparks Daily Standings Seasons Mayors Trophy Games X


Leaderboards Yearly Leaders Decade Leaders Postseason Leaders


Ultimate Mets Scrapbook Forum Fan Memories Mets Uniforms Uniform Numbers Baseball Cards This Date in Mets History

Contact Us Frequently Asked Questions

THE ULTIMATE METS DATABASE IS NOT AFFILIATED IN ANY WAY WITH THE NEW YORK METS OR MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.

• 
  • All-Time Roster Every Met player... EVER!
    
  • Mug Shots The pretty ones and the ugly ones -- we have them all!
  
  
  • Player Awards Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Hall of Fame, and more.
  
  
  • Transactions Over a thousand player transactions -- in chronological order!
  
  
  • Managers & Coaches The men who have led the Mets, and the men who helped them.
  
  
  • Mets Staff Executives, General Managers, Broadcasters, and more. (And Jane Jarvis too!)
  
  
  • Birth Places Perfect for planning your Mets pilgrimages!
  
  
  • Oldest Living Mets See which Mets players have spent the most time walking the Earth.
  
  
  • Necrology Mets players and personnel who are no longer with us.
  
  

• 
  • Game Results
    All the wins, all the losses. Includes box scores and score cards!
  
  
  • Opening Day
    The first day of each season! See the starting lineups, who started at each position year-by-year, and leaders by position.
  
  
  • Walkoff Wins & Losses
    Interactively search for the happiest and saddest endings to Mets games.
  
  
  • Postseason Games How the Mets have fared in the games that count the most!
  
  
  • No-Hitters & One-Hitters See a list of every no-hitter and one-hitter pitched by the Mets, or against them. One of these categories was frustratingly empty for over fifty years, but not anymore!
  
  
  • All-Star Games Mets who have appeared in baseball's Mid-Summer Classic
  
  
  • Opponents & Ballparks See the Mets won-lost record against every team, and in every ballpark in which they've played!
  
  
  • Daily Standings What was the Mets' pennant outlook on any given day in past seasons?
  
  
  • Yearly Finishes The heights and the depths: the Mets won-lost record at the end of each season.
  
  
  • Mayor's Trophy Games A look back at the long-ago annual series between the Mets and their Bronx rivals.
  
  

• 
  • Leaderboards Career, season, and individual game leaders at your fingertips!
  • Team Leaders Players who led the Mets in various categories, from season to season.
  • Decade Leaders Mets history broken down into ten-year chunks!
  • Post-Season Leaders Mets leaders, by category, in post-season games

• 
  • Ultimate Mets Scrapbook The history of the Mets, as it was reported when it happened!
  • Forum Visit the Crane Pool Forum to discuss the Mets and just about anything else!
  • Fan Memories Insightful. Poignant. Thrilling. Somber. Nutty. Our visitors have submitted thousands of thoughts and memories of the Mets and the games they've played.
  • Mets Uniforms It's more than just laundry! Trace the evolution of the Mets official uniform over the years.
  • Uniform Numbers In association with Mets By the Numbers, we present a full history of who wore what number, and when!/li>
  • Baseball Cards Our collection of home-made baseball cards, in the style of the classic Topps cards of the 1970's.
  • This Date in Mets History Births, Deaths, Transactions, Newspaper Covers

• 
  • Contact Us
  • FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

Go

Jim Marshall
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 560 of 1252 players
Rufus James Marshall
Born: May 25, 1931 at Danville, Ill.
Throws: Left Bats: Left
Height: 6.01 Weight: 195

First Mets game: April 11, 1962
Last Mets game: May 6, 1962

Share your memories of Jim Marshall HERE IS WHAT OTHER METS FANS HAVE TO SAY: Joe Figliola August 13, 2001 You wanna know why the Mets lost 120 games in 1962? Because they got rid of a guy in Jim Marshall who hit .344 and was averaging one home run every 10.6 at-bats! Mark McGwire, eat your heart out! Seriously, though, I remember Jim more as a manager of the Cubs during the mid-1970s. Bob P April 12, 2006 Jim Marshall had 852 major league at bats over five seasons and was traded five times, sold for cash once, and claimed on waivers once. Nearly half of his at bats came with the Cubs in 1958 and 1959. Marshall hit 16 homers as a Cub, including three in a doubleheader in his rookie season. He hit 3 homers in just 32 at bats with the Mets, two of them in consecutive games against the Pirates, and the other against the Phillies. In May 1962 the Mets traded Jim to the Pirates for Vinegar Bend Mizell. Jim played sparingly for Pittsburgh (just 100 at bats the rest of the season), mainly as Dick Stuart's backup at first base. The Pirates released him after the season, and Jim went to Japan where he hit 78 homers over the next three seasons. Jim managed in the minors for a while, then replaced Whitey Lockman as manager of the Cubs in July 1974 (Lockman had replaced Leo Durocher two years earlier). Jim went just 175-218 in two and a half years before being fired after the 1976 season. He resurfaced in 1979 to manage the Oakland A's, but they went just 54- 108. Marshall was fired after one season and replaced by Billy Martin. He won just 229 of 555 games as a manager. Flitgun Frankie October 4, 2022 I was listening to an old game recently and Jim Marshall hit a HR and it was mentioned on the broadcast that his HR was a historic Mets first: the first pinch hit HR ever hit by a Met. Yeah, I guess that’s a pretty obscure accomplishment, but only one guy can be first and no one can ever take it away. There’s a video on YouTube from 10-12 years after Marshall’s brief Met career, when he’s managing the Cubs and they get into a big (and pretty funny) brawl with the Cardinals, and Jim Marshall is right in the middle of it. Mets Know-It-All October 6, 2022 Frankie, it appears that some wrong information was given in the broadcast you heard. Jim had three home runs as a Met in 1962, but none of them as a pinch-hitter. He hit his first one in the ninth inning of a game on April 14th after he had replaced Gil Hodges at first base in the top of the fifth. Jim's other two homers on April 15th and April 29th came with him in the starting lineup. The Mets' first pinch-hit home run was hit by Ed Bouchee on April 18th against the Cardinals at the Polo Grounds.

Meet the Mets

All-Time Roster

Mug Shots

Player Awards

Transactions

Managers and Coaches

Mets Staff

Birthplaces

Oldest Living Mets

Necrology

Games

Game Results

Walkoff Wins and Losses

Post-Season Games

No-Hitters and One-Hitters

All-Star Games

Opponents and Ballparks

Daily Standings

Yearly Finishes

Mayor's Trophy Games

Stats

Interactive Statistics

Team Leaders

Decade Leaders

Metscellaneous

Fan Memories

Mets Uniforms

Uniform Numbers

About Us

Contact us

FAQ