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Dave Schneck
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 159 of 1218 players
Schneck
David Lee Schneck
Born: June 18, 1949 at Allentown, Pa.
Throws: Left Bats: Left
Height: 5.10 Weight: 195

Dave Schneck has been the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup 13 times, most recently on June 18, 2020.

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First Mets game: July 14, 1972
Last Mets game: October 1, 1974

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Paul Sullivan
January 7, 2001
The Mets somehow won the '73 pennant despite Dave Schneck. He was born a few years too late; he would have fit in better with the likes of such 60's icons as Joe Moock, Bobby Phiel, Al Schmelz, Joe Foy, Choo Choo Coleman, Pumpsie Green and Al Luplow, all synonymous with Mets futility.

Mr. Sparkle
February 16, 2001
I always thought he was a Met who hit a hmer in his first career at bad. Apparently I am wrong since Benny Ayala and Mike Fitzgerald are the only Mets to have done that. I still can't figure out what Schneck did and why I was told that. If he had done it it would have been the only memorable moment of his career.

Dave Sosidka
August 4, 2001
As I was starting to like the Mets, I sort of latched on to Dave Schneck because he had the same first name as I did. (I quickly converted to being a Rusty Staub fan.) As the Vietnam vet struggled to return to the big leagues, my dad would say, "What the heck- Bring up Schneck!"

keith bramley
October 23, 2001
My dad introduced me to baseball in 1973. Somehow, Someway. Dave Schneck was the first player I ever saw. Like any little 6 yr old kid. That's the name I followed. I later made sure I got his baseball card. Now at almost thirty years old the card may have gone to 4 cents?

Although , I quickly became a Willie Mays fan. For all the average or below average Major Leaguers such as Dave Schneck was. I wish I had the chance he had. To have a 6 yr old see me as the first baseball player he ever saw.

Cheers to you Dave.. Let's go Mets..

Gary from Chesapeake
April 5, 2002
I saw him play at Tidewater where he was one of their rising stars of the early 70's! I think his picture was on the Tides official scorecard in 1973 (shot from behind him, as he stood in centerfield in Met Park) I was so pumped when he got the call to the bigs! I like that battle cry, "What the heck, bring up Schneck!"

Larry Burns
June 3, 2002
He was another guy who was always "On the Rise" and never seemed to do a blessed thing. He did very little memorable, except that no one knows exactly how to pronounce his last name. Along with Jim Beauchamp, he is a charter member of the all sideburns team.

Teddy
July 19, 2002
On fan appreciation day in 73, I think. When you could walk throught the field with a banner, some freak was holding up a banner saying "Where the heck is Schneck ?"

Mr. Sparkle
December 24, 2002
In 1974 he hit 5 total home runs, 4 of them in two games in April.

Bob P
June 10, 2003
Schneck made his debut on Friday night, July 14, 1972 in San Diego. Incredibly, he batted cleanup in his first major league game!

Schneck's first at bat came leading off the top of the second and he flied out to right. In the 4th he was called out on strikes, and then in the 6th, with two outs and a runner at second, he homered off RHP Steve Arlin to give the Mets a 3-2 lead (that would be the final score). He fouled out in his last at bat that night.

Dave
August 2, 2003
It was fan appreciation day c. '74 or '75 and the banner read "Hey New York How's the Stork and What the heck happened to Schneck"?

Phil Calbi
August 9, 2003
My memory may be a little faulty but very soon after hitting his first home run in his first game, Dave quickly hit his second. Maybe it was the next night. This was big news for a Met team that hit very few home runs. We thought we might have had something there. Alas, I think two more years went by before Dave hit his next homer.

Bob P
August 13, 2003
Phil, as I mentioned above, Schneck's first homer came in his first game, July 14, 1972. The next night he did not hit a homer but the following day, Sunday afternoon July 16, he hit home run #2 off Padres RHP Mike Corkins. In fact, Schneck had a single, double, and homer that afternoon. After that he hit just 6 more homers in 140 more games as a Met.

student
May 22, 2004
Mr. Schneck is my seventh grade teacher and he is so awesome! His class is so fun. He is so smart, any question you have he will answer it - even if you are just making up the question so you don't have to listen anymore. My locker is by his classroom and he is always singing and it's so funny. He's cool.

Kelly Ross
June 20, 2004
Mr Schneck is the BEST teacher I EVER had! I will always remember him! He has opened my heart up in SO many ways. I now pay attention to the world around me and I see how we are ruining it! School is coming to its nearest end and I will miss that guy, even though I will see him in the halls next year. But we all wanna say (Kara, Lindsay, Shannon, and Kelly) WE LOVE YOU MR SCHNECK! Thanks for being a GREAT and AWESOME teacher!

Jamey Bumbalo
October 14, 2004
I was at the game in Montreal in April of 1974 when he hit two homers. That morning I was at the Mets' hotel getting autographs. When I approached Dave he asked what I was doing that day. I said I didn't know (I was almost 12 and didn't make the decisions) but that we'd gone to the game yesterday. He asked if I wanted to go that day. I asked my dad if that was OK; he said yes. Dave then told me he'd have six tickets waiting for us at the stadium. I felt so cool going to the ticket window and telling the attendant that one of the Mets had left tickets for my family. And Dave ended up hitting two home runs! I'll never forget how great Dave Schneck's generosity made me feel.

Jonathan Stern
January 28, 2005
Dave Schneck injured Thurman Munson badly in an exibition game between the Mets and the Yankees just before the start of the 1974 season. Schneck swung and his bat hit Munson's bare hand. Thanks to Schneck, the Yankee catcher played in pain for the entire 1974 season, and parts of the next few. Munson returned the favor later on by immortalizing Schneck in his autobiography in a chapter entitled "A Hitter Named Dave Schneck." In this chapter, Thurm was nice enough to note that Schenck's lifetime batting average was .199.

Pete
December 3, 2005
My single lasting memory of Dave Schneck is that Ralph Kiner once said that he was built like a fireplug.

The Ol' Perfesser
June 28, 2006
That "fireplug" build earned him a great nickname: "No-Neck" Schneck.

Greg Russell
August 20, 2006
Though Schneck never excelled at the major league level, he was quite the stud in Double A Texas League playing for the then-Memphis Blues. I was only 10 then but he provided me and other local kids a star---albeit minor league one---to look up to. He always stayed around after the game to sign autographs. If I recall, seems like he homered in his first or second game as a Met. That Blues team he played on also featured Joe Nolan and Bob Apodaca and manager John Antonelli, but no other folks who made any kind of impact at the ML level. I am still a Mets fan here in Cards country.

RF Mojica
December 13, 2007
I grew up in New York in the 1970s and, though I hated the Mets at that time (coz everyone else liked them) I remember that they always had players with great names: Jim Gosger, Greg Goosen, Don Bosch, Brian Ostrosser, Bruce Boisclair and, of course, my favorite, Dave Schneck. I remember seeing Dave Schneck play and that he was touted as a possible star. Looking at this website, I see he had a pretty good month of April in 1974, with one 4-hit game and two 2-homer games. The Metsies must have thought they really had something. Then, as it happens to most players, I guess, the pitchers of the National League figured him out. But all of us of a certain age here in New York remember Dave Schneck!

Ralphist
June 12, 2009
I went to see my first Mets game on September 23, 1972. It was a Saturday day game against the Phillies. I was in first grade at that time but still I remember some things from the game:

1. Dave Schneck hit a triple! I can recall his name being announced and then almost immediately after he hit one off the wall in LF for a 3-bagger.
2. I remember the Phillies wore awful powder blue uniforms and that they lost to the Mets 5-3
3. I remember people in the crowd taunting Bob Boone. They were going "Bah-Booooone, Bah-Booooone" in sort of a homeage to VA-VOOM the cartoon character.

Joe Figliola
November 24, 2010
Dave is one of the few noteworthy Mets to never appear on a Topps baseball card (others who never had the Met name stamped on their cardboard include Joe Hicks, Jimmy Piersall, Jack Aker, Jack DiLauro [although I think he appears on the '70 WS celebration card but am not sure it's him], Bob Johnson [the infielder who hit .348 for the Amazin's in '67], Mike Marshall [the relief pitcher], and Mardie Cornejo).

Buzz
November 25, 2010
DiLauro did appear on a card in a Mets uniform though! He was on a 1970 Astros card (the 'Stros picked him up in the offseason) in a Mets uniform where just his face was depicted. The NY on his cap was painted over so no team logo appeared (Topps was notorious for doing that when guys were traded) and you can see the blue pinstripes on the neck of his jersey.

What can I say about Dave Schneck? In 1974 I remember he was always at the bottom of "Mets Batting" in the Daily News (only Jim Gosger was below him). Never saw him play but it seems like he was a real hustler. And unfortunately his lifetime batting average was .199. Darn.

Mets Fan in Maine
November 27, 2010
Dave Schneck does appear in a Mets uniform in the Mets Wiz cards (released around 1990), as do the rest of the guys mentioned. See my comments from a couple years ago about Dave Schneck giving me and my family tickets in Montreal.

Jacl DiLauro also is shown in a Mets uniform in the cool Spectrum Miracle of '69 cards.

Mitch
August 11, 2015
Say what you want about No-Neck Schneck - he made the majors and he hit a home run off major league pitching. A LOT of other players can't make that claim. You might say he was a terrible player, but if he played in a Sunday softball beer league, he'd be Babe Freaking Ruth.

VIBaseball
December 10, 2021
I was quite surprised to see when I was researching the '73 pennant race just how much Schneck started in center that September. Mays was hurt. I have to check again what happened to Hahn.








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