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John "Jack Quinn" Picus: not Polish, not Welsh, and not born in America at all.(Biography)

John "Jack Quinn" Picus is now a near-to-mythical baseball player from another era.

He became a Major League baseball player with the New York Highlanders in 1909, and, based on the information to be presented in this article, he was definitely twenty-five years of age at the start of that season. In 1908 he had had an astonishing year with Richmond in the Virginia League; he won 14 of 17 games pitched, without a loss, including 92 strikeouts. From 1909 until he played his last game in the Majors for the Cincinnati Reds in 1933, he pitched in 756 Major League games, winning 247 with an ERA of 3.29. In 1929, playing for Connie Mack's world champion Philadelphia Athletics, ...

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