T. Goldschmidt Jr., 50, financial planner

As a second baseman, Thomas C. Goldschmidt Jr. touched all the bases, from Little League through Camden Catholic High School and into the adult teams in the U.S. Amateur Baseball League.

"From what I heard," his wife, Vinese, said, "he always loved baseball."

She recalled the family story that, because Mr. Goldschmidt seemed ever on the move, "his father, when he was 2 or 3, used to call him Scooter Boots."

On Sunday, Sept. 6, Mr. Goldschmidt, 50, known as Tim, died of a heart attack at Kennedy University Hospital in Washington Township, where he resided.

From 1996 to 1998, his wife said, he played with the Cherry Hill Chargers, until he had to become a manager.

"He had an accident on the baseball field," she said, "and he was not able to play so much anymore."

Leaping for a ball, he injured his neck.

From 1999 to 2004 or 2005, he was the manager for the Collingswood Reds, but found time to get back onto the field, she said, "a little bit."

He quit, she said, because by that time, "we had two kids. He had his own little Scooter Boots."

At Camden Catholic High School, from which he graduated in 1983, Mr. Goldschmidt was the second baseman on an All-Catholic team, his wife said.

He earned a bachelor's in communications at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla.

"The only period when he didn't play was when he was in college," she said.

Straight out of college, he became a financial adviser with Financial Planning Professionals in Turnersville, Washington Township, and, his wife said, after three years of study, he became a certified financial planner.

Thomas McMahon, a teacher at Arthur P. Schalick High School in Pittsgrove, said that he was an outfielder on teams with Mr. Goldschmidt from high school to the Cherry Hill Chargers in the mid-1990s.

"Tim was a pretty outstanding player," McMahon said.

In his eulogy at the Monday Funeral Mass, he said Mr. Goldschmidt would focus on traits such as "loyalty, honesty, integrity."

But, he said, Mr. Goldschmidt was also "a prankster, a bit mischievous."

The two were part of "a group of friends that formed in high school and continued to be friends" to this day.

All of them, he said, "delighted in zinging one another. It's what holds it together. To keep it all honest and no one gets too serious."

Besides his wife, Mr. Goldschmidt is survived by his parents, Thomas and Mary Goldschmidt, son Vincent, daughter Victoria Goldschmidt, a brother, and three sisters.

Viewings were set from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, and from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 14, both at the Gardner Funeral Home, 126 S. Black Horse Pike, Runnemede, before an 11 a.m. Funeral Mass at the Church of the Holy Family, 226 Hurffville Rd., Sewell.

Donations may be sent to Our Lady of Hope Catholic School, 420 S. Black Horse Pike, Blackwood, N.J. 08012 or to www.ourladyofhopecatholicschool.org.

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.gardnerfuneralhome.com.