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John Pein

  • Class
    1999
  • Induction
    2011
  • Sport(s)
    Baseball
John Pein came to Caldwell as a catcher, but would eventually excel on the mound. A freshman on the Cougars’ first baseball team in 1996, John won 18 games as a pitcher in his four-year career to rank second all-time at Caldwell. Also a threat at the plate, he is second in career batting average, batting .374.
 
His best season was his senior year, when he went 7-4 with 70 strikeouts in 68 1/3 innings while batting .398. That year, John led the Cougars to a 21-18 record, including a 12-3 mark in conference play, and to the CACC Tournament finals for the first time in the program’s history. He was named the CACC Player of the Year and received All-America honorable mention.
 
“Whenever they needed someone to pitch, I went out and pitched, whether it was on two days’ rest or one day’s rest,” he said. “I’ve always said that whatever I had I left out there on the mound. I guess making the Hall of Fame means somebody saw what I did out there.”
 
A native of Secaucus, N.J., John attended Hudson Catholic High School. He still lives in Secaucus and is a seventh-grade math teacher at Lincoln Grammar School in North Bergen, N.J.
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