Jack DiLauro

Jack Edward DiLauro (May 3, 1943 – December 7, 2024) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the 1969 World Series Champion New York Mets.

DiLauro started his professional baseball career by signing with the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent on January 1, 1963. He never played in the Major Leagues for the Tigers. He was then promoted to the Mets and made his major league debut for the Mets on May 15, 1969, against the Atlanta Braves. In 1969, he pitched in 23 games, mostly in relief, and 63 innings for the Mets. but DiLauro did not pitch in the postseason. In July 1971 he was traded with Hank McGraw (brother of DiLauro's former Mets teammate Tug McGraw) to the Atlanta Braves organization for Marv Staehle. But he never pitched in the major leagues after 1970. DiLauro died in Akron on December 7, 2024, at the age of 81. He was married with two sons, one of whom predeceased him.