{"id":918,"date":"2023-02-17T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/inductee\/james-j-weindel\/"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:35:25","slug":"james-j-weindel","status":"publish","type":"inductee","link":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/inductee\/james-j-weindel\/","title":{"rendered":"James J. Weindel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jim Weindel was a three sport star at Bennett in the early 50&#8217;s. He was a backfield star in football, the starting point guard in basketball, and a catcher in his specialty, baseball. In football he started for the Tigers in his junior and senior seasons, a team that went undefeated but couldn&#8217;t play in the Harvard Cup game because of an overage player. Highlights include scoring a TD on a 43 yard play to defeat arch rival Kensington, breaking a 4 game losing streak to the Suffolk Ave. school. Weindel also scored a Touchdown in the Kensington game in his senior year for a two year win streak against the rival Knights. He later attended Mississippi State on a football scholarship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In basketball, weindel was the starting point guard on a team that did not win the Yale Cup, but defeated the team that did, the legendary Emerson High powerhouse, in both his junior and senior years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weindel&#8217;s specialty was baseball. A three year varsity player, he was the All-High catcher in 1952. His batting average that year was .392, and he caught for Johnnie Zeitler (B.S.H.O.F. ) and Earle Hannel, on a Cornell Cup championship team. After a stint at Mississippi St., Weindel signed a professional baseball contract with the Chicago Cubs. He rose to the level of AAA in 3 years of pro ball. He later played with the top amateur local baseball team, the Simon Pures, where his batting average was .342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Weindel served in the U.S. Army, is married with 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"James-J.-Weindel-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" width=\"827\" height=\"504\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":637,"template":"","award":[],"graduation-year":[13],"sports":[10,14,12],"year-inducted":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inductee"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"award","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"graduation-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/graduation-year?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"sports","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sports?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennettalumni.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}