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Ted Schreiber
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 725 of 1252 players

Theodore Henry Schreiber
Born: July 11, 1938 at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Died: September 8, 2022 at Boynton Beach, Fla.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 5.11 Weight: 175

First Mets game: April 14, 1963
Last Mets game: September 29, 1963

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HERE IS WHAT OTHER METS FANS HAVE TO SAY:

john breen
Shortly after leaving baseball in the mid-sixties Ted Schrieber went on to become the basketball coach at Nazareth High School in Brooklyn

THOMAS GRONOCK
January 22, 2001
Mr. Schrieber also was my gym teacher at dewey j.h.s.in Brooklyn n.y. In 1965

John Paige
March 18, 2001
If memory serves correctly, I was listening to the last game played in the Polo Grounds. I believe that Ted Schreiber was a pinch hitter--maybe the last at bat there.

Bill Deegan
October 22, 2002
John Paige is correct. Ted was the last man to bat in the old Polo Grounds. I remember that there were only a few thousand fans in attendance. Nowadays, they'd make such a big deal out of it the place would have been packed.

Gordon
December 17, 2002
While playing for the Mets, Schrieber used to live in the Rockaways. I was living there as well, and I joined a few friends trying to search for his home. He was listed in the phone book. With our bikes, we reached his home. We were going to knock on his door-BUT we chickened out! This is my only recollection of Ted Schrieber!

Choo Choo
October 14, 2004
I met Ted once. He did make the last out in the Polo Grounds. It was a line drive double play to second and as Ted described it he 'wuz robbed'.

Maria Arena
February 24, 2006
I think he was a teacher at Montauk JHS in the mid 1960's.

VIBaseball
August 20, 2006
Ted is living in Georgia these days. I had the pleasure of listening to him tell some stories about his college days at St. John's (including hitting a game-winning homer at Ebbets Field in 1958, after the Dodgers left) and the Mets. The one that sticks in my mind is about Casey Stengel -- Schreiber felt he could have gotten a longer look. There was an extra-inning game once, Casey was looking for a pinch-hitter, and finally decided to send in Ted. "He had to. I was the only guy he had left!"

bill delgaudio
January 11, 2007
Ted Schreiber was my math teacher at Dewey Junior high school. I was living in a bad family environment that was both physically and emotionally dangerous. I had better things to do than go to school. One day I had nothing better to do so I went to school. Mr. Schreiber stopped me after class and said "Bill, you are a smart kid, why haven't you been coming to school?" He was the only adult who asked and listened. That day he saved my life. I want to thank him in person but I don't know how to contact him. My email address is delgaudiob@yahoo.com. Please if anyone reads this let him know that I have spent 25 years trying to thank him for literally preventing me from being a dead statistic.
Please please please ask him to contact me.
Sincerely, Bill Delgaudio, MA(1999)

James Van Der Wall
June 1, 2007
Didn't Ted Schreiber become a Met because of a special draft set up to enable them to select players frorm the rosters of other teams? I am sure I am right about this.

Ernie
August 5, 2007
He was great I did have him in the mid eighties as a teacher not sure of subject. He did have a photo poster of all the Mets who played third base and there he was he was a real nice guy.... Thanks Mr.Shreiber

Mets fan in Maine
January 6, 2008
He was an OK hitter in the minors in 1962 (Seattle) and 1963 (Buffalo), batting .279 both seasons. Despite spending almost an entire season with the Mets, he only appeared in 39 games, with just 50 at- bats. In '64 in Buffalo he hit only .211. He has a baseball card in the One-Year Winners series. Sounds like he was a great teacher.

Don Gelman
May 7, 2009
I knew Ted Schreiber in P.S. 206 in Brooklyn, in either the fourth or fifth grade. We were friendly for a while. Ted was the greatest athlete I had ever seen; he could run toward the handball court wall and take two steps up the wall!
At the time I knew Ted, I had to wear glasses during exams, but was ashamed to let other people see me wearing them. During one exam, I was hunched over so that no one could see me, and I peered around. In so doing, I spotted Ted, who was also wearing glasses, and trying to hide that fact.

RJ
April 15, 2019
In the mid-60s I was playing baseball in a summer little league and Ted was coaching the kids. He was a good coach and would occasionally take a little batting practice. I remember being amazed by how far he could hit a baseball. Near the end of the summer we found out that he had been a Met. One day I was trying to pitch and he and another coach stood behind me. He was a bit surprised that I could throw a screwball. I was also surprised as I had no idea what I was doing but he said it was a good pitch. (That was the extent of my baseball career.) Nice guy - fond memories.

David Serrano
September 5, 2019
Mr. Schreiber was my gym teacher at Charles O Dewey from 1980 to 83. He used to umpire our games. I can still hear him call a strike like if it were yesterday, Striiiieeeek! What a wonderful man. He helped us with our stance and timing. Wishing him the best wherever he is. A shout out to Mr. Schreiber from Sunset Park. We still think of him.

Daniel Fazzingo
September 20, 2020
I played with Teddy in Brooklyn night league softball where Pudgie Walsh was umpire and Andy Gaff as well. Teddy was great at shortstop couldn't get a ball past him and I was in the lineup hitting behind him. I think he homered in every game he played that year, I am guessing 1978 or so. I had 4 career home runs in that park over a span of 4 years. Ave N and 49th st Brooklyn.

Melvin Band
September 21, 2021
I was a teacher at PS 206 in Sheepshead Bay having two of Teddy Scheiber's children, his oldest, daughter Louise and his son William, terrific kids in every way. I didn't make the connection as to who Louise's father was (Schreiber is a fairly common name) until I saw her returned report card with her father's signature. Actually it wasn't the name that caught my attention, but the way he signed it. There is a certain mystic as to the way the pros sign their names. I called her to my desk and asked her if her father ever played baseball? When she said he played for the New York Mets, I said, "Oh My God". Needless to say, being a lifelong Mets fan, When Teddy Schreiber came in for the parent teacher conference, he was as down to earth as he could be. While not a Hall of Famer as a ball player, as a parent, judging by the kids he raised, he's in the Parent Hall of Fame.

David Grayer
July 16, 2022
I remember Ted from PS206 in 4th or 5th grade. We called him Whitey because of his hair color. We measured our athletic ability by how often we could hit a Spaulding over the handball wall while playing handball. Whitey was small then, very fast but not, I think a handball slugger. Baseball or hardball was not played much in the neighborhood because of the lack of resources. The Torre brothers lived around the corner from me on Ave T and 26th St and I think got into baseball at Marine Park. I would be interested in how Ted made his way up the baseball ladder.

Joseph Devito
September 11, 2022
I went to Nazareth H S. I remember Ted being the baseball coach

David Grayer
February 22, 2023
I remember Ted from PS206 in 4th or 5th grade. We called him Whitey because of his hair color. We measured our athletic ability by how often we could hit a Spaulding over the handball wall while playing handball. Whitey was small then, very fast but not, I think, a handball slugger. Baseball or hardball was not played much in the neighborhood because of the lack of resources. The Torre brothers lived around the corner from me on Ave T and 26th St and I think got into baseball at Marine Park. I would be interested in how Ted made his way up the baseball ladder.