» April 29, 1911:
In the Highlanders 10–6 loss to the A's, New York pitchers Hippo Vaughn and Jack Quinn throw just seven pitches to the A's Stuffy McInnis, who has five singles. Stuffy hits a first pitch three times and the 2nd pitch twice. » April 15, 1912:
In New York, Walter Johnson wins a duel against the Yankees Jack Quinn, 1–0.
» April 13, 1914: After building eight new ballparks in three months, the Federal League opens with the Baltimore Terrapins beating Buffalo 3–2 before 27,140. Winning P Jack Quinn will win 26 and lose 14. Indianapolis will win the pennant, led by rookie Benny Kauff's league-leading .370 batting average. Ex-Pirate Claude Hendrix will be 29–11.
» August 26, 1918:
Ban Johnson casts the deciding vote in a National Commission decision awarding the disputed services of P Jack Quinn to the Yankees for 1919 over the claim of the White Sox, for whom Quinn was 5-1 this year.
» February 21, 1919: The Yankees acquire 36-year-old spitballer Jack Quinn from Vernon (PCL), sending in exchange P Joe Finneran, 1B Zinn Beck, and cash. Quinn will be named a designated spitballer when the wet pitch is outlawed, and in 1921 will help the Yanks to their first pennant. He won't call it quits till he's 50.
» May 11, 1919:
Walter Johnson retires 28 consecutive batters
during a 12-inning scoreless tie against Jack Quinn
and the New York Yankees. Future football immortal
George Halas, batting leadoff for New York, fans twice
and goes 0-for-5.
» September 8, 1919:
Babe Ruth hits HR No. 26 off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25.
» December 17, 1920: The American League votes to allow pitchers who used the spitball in 1920 to continue using it as long as they are in the league. The National League will do the same. There will be 17 designated spitters in all, eight in the NL and nine in the AL. For the NL: Bill Doak, Phil Douglas, Dana Fillingim, Ray Fisher, Marvin Goodwin, Burleigh Grimes, Clarence Mitchell, and Dick Rudolph. For the AL: A.W. Ayers, Slim Caldwell, Stan Coveleski, Red Faber, H.B. Leonard, Jack Quinn, Allan Russell, Urban Shocker, and Allen Sothoron.
» September 29, 1921:
With New York in 1st place by one 1/2 games over Cleveland, and facing the Indians in the 4th game of the series, Miller Huggins polls his players to find out who they'd like to see start. The team elects to go with veteran Jack Quinn, but the spitballer comes up dry giving up three runs in the 1st inning before Waite Hoyt relieves. Ruth hits a 1st inning home run, adds an RBI double in the 3rd and a 2-run home run in the 5th to give the Yankees the lead. Carl Mays, who took over in the 5th, strikes out Steve O'Neill with two on in the 9th to end it 5–4. The win increases New York's lead to two 1/2 games. The four-game series at the Polo Grounds draws a record 147,000 people.
» December 20, 1921:
The Yankees raid Boston again, and come away with P Bullet Joe Bush, SS Everett Scott, and P Sad Sam Jones in exchange for SS Roger Peckinpaugh (who goes on to Washington), pitchers Jack Quinn, Rip Collins, and Bill Piercy, and $50,000.
» May 1, 1927:
The Yankees ride the tandem of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to a 7–3 win over the Athletics. Ruth bangs a first inning homer off Jack Quinn, and Gehrig hits one off Quinn in the 6th. Babe comes back in the 8th with another homer, off Rube Walberg as New York takes over undisputed possession of first place.
» May 14, 1929: After a slow start, the Athletics beat Detroit, 10–8, and move past the Yankees into first place, where they will stay for the rest of the year. The Yanks are rained out. Starter Jack Quinn, with the help of three relievers, is the winner.
» May 21, 1930: Babe Ruth hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the A's, then batting against Jack Quinn in the 9th, Ruth decides to hit right handed. After two strikes, he switches to lefty but strikes out. This is the first of two career 3-homer games for the Babe. Max Bishop draws five walks for the 2nd time in his career (he is the only player to do this twice), and Jimmie Foxx homers to help the A's to a 15–7 victory. Ruth is homerless in the 2nd game, a 4–1 Yankee loss, but Bishop has three more walks. Bishop will walk eight times in a doubleheader in 1934, the only player to collect more than six walks in an afternoon.
» October 4, 1930:
Bill Hallahan blanks the A's 5-0, giving up
5 walks and 7 hits. Philadelphia A's hurler Jack Quinn,
at age 46, pitches 2 innings of relief against the
St. Louis Cardinals, thereby becoming the oldest player
to appear in a WS game.
» May 21, 1931: Dazzy Vance is knocked cold by a line drive while leading the Phillies 3–2 with two outs in the 9th inning. Jack Quinn gets the last out for Brooklyn.
» August 14, 1932:
John Quinn, at 49, becomes the oldest P to win a ML game. He relieves Van Mungo in the ninth with the game between Brooklyn and New York tied at 1-1. The Dodgers win in the 10th after Johnny Frederick hits a pinch-hit HR off Carl Hubbell in the ninth to tie. It is Frederick's fourth pinch-hit HR of the year, for a new major-league record. He will have six by the season's end.
» September 13, 1932: Brooklyn's Jack Quinn earns his 247th ML victory at age 49 pitching a complete game 6–5 win over the Cardinals. It is the final win of his career. Dizzy Dean fans nine in the nitecap, but the Cards lose, 3–1.
» May 6, 1933: The Reds sign Jack Quinn, 49. Quinn is the oldest to ever play for the Reds. For Quinn, it is his 8th team, tying him with Jim Delahanty for most teams played for, a record that will be topped.
» June 28, 1933: Spitballer Jack Quinn, one week short of his 50th birthday, loses his final career decision as the Dodgers edge the Reds 6–5.
» January 13, 1959:
John Quinn resigns as GM of the Braves and immediately accepts a similar post with the Phillies.
» April 8, 1985: At Fenway, 46-year-old Phil Niekro starts for the Yankees, the 2nd oldest pitcher ever to start an Opener: only Jack Quinn, for Brooklyn in 1931, was older at age 47. Boston chases Niekro after four innings and behind the pitching of Oil Can Boyd coasts to a 9–2 win. Niekro walks four in the 3rd inning, including two with the bases loaded, to lose his 7th opener in a row (6 with Atlanta), the worst opening day record ever. Tony Armas, Dwight Evans, and Jim Rice stroke homers for Boston.
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