Baseball Personalities - John Picus Quinn
John Picus Quinn an eastern European who took the name Quinn in an era when baseball was dominated by Irishmen, his major league career spanned more than a quarter century, from 1909 until 1933. The Yankees traded him after the 1921 season, when he was in his late 30s and seemed to be at the end of the line.
Yet he pitched for another dozen years and won 122 more games. A spitball pitcher who won 247 games, he was a key member of the world champion Philadelphia Athletics of 1929-30.
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