JACK MULL

2026 CHAMBERSBURG ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE

It’s a long way from winning a city Little League championship with the Chambersburg Lions, to being a coach for Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants, but that’s the road Jack Mull traveled.

In between those teams, Mull’s baseball talents helped Rotary in the Nellie Fox League, the Trojans in high school, Chambersburg in the Franklin County American Legion League (where he actually batted against former N.Y. Jets football star Joe Namath), the Franklin County Adult League, several U.S. Navy teams and minor league teams of the Giants and Chicago Cubs.

Jack Mull

Mull is one of 9 individuals and one team that will be inducted into the Chambersburg Athletic Hall of Fame on Sept. 18-19.

Other individuals are Terri Yeager, Kellen Williams, Paul Kaiser, Carla (Shearer) Christian, Craig Helmuth, Brooke (Jacobs) Lombardozzi, Norm Snowberger, and Steve Moore, and the 1989 state champion girls cross country team. Stories on each of them have or will be published this summer.

Mull, who graduated in 1962, was very active in sports in high school at Chambersburg. He lettered 4 years in baseball, 3 in football and 2 in basketball, and was very successful in all three. He was an All-American honorable mention pick in football, a South Penn Athletic League all-star catcher, and made the South Penn second team in basketball.

“I was just happy to be wearing a Trojan uniform, because of all the history of players before me,” Mull said. “We were always very competitive in all sports and I was glad to share that with my teammates and friends.”

After graduation, Mull joined the U.S. Navy and played on some Navy baseball teams. While playing in several tournaments, he was scouted by pro teams. After his 4 ½-year service, Mull signed a contract with the Cubs as a catcher and began his baseball odyssey in Quincy, Ill.

Mull was named to the Class A Midwest League’s all-star team in his first season, 1969, and again the next year playing for San Antonio in the Texas League. In 1975, while with the Class AAA Phoenix Giants of the Pacific Coast League, Mull was named a player-coach.

The following season, his playing days ended after 7 years and his career as a manager began. He ended up working 38 years in professional baseball, from 1969 to 2006.

The highlight came in 1985 when Mull was named the bullpen coach with the Giants’ Major League team in San Francisco. After that season, the Giants did a complete reorganization and Mull ended up back in the minors as a manager.

Among the other highlights:

• As a Minor League manager, Mull’s teams earned over 1,250 victories
• He was the Texas League all-star manager in 1987 and 1988
• Mull was the Manager of the Year in the Midwest League in 1993
• 10 of his teams had a winning percentage above .500 and 7 made the playoffs
• He was employed for 6 years with the Cubs, 20 for the Giants and 12 for the Cleveland Indians
• He coached the Holland National Team in Amsterdam for 6 weeks in 1999

Mull was inducted into the South Central Chapter of the PA Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

By Ed Gotwals