George McQuinn

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox baseball biography George Hartley McQuinn (May 29, 1910 – December 24, 1978) was an American professional baseball player.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics">Template:Cite web</ref> He played as a first baseman in Major League Baseball from Template:Mlby to Template:Mlby, most notably as a member of the only St. Louis Browns team to win an American League pennant in Template:By and, as a member of the world champion Template:Mlby New York Yankees. A seven-time All-Star, he threw and batted left-handed.

Early life

McQuinn was born in Arlington, Virginia, and attended Washington-Lee High School.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/>

Baseball career

McQuinn in 1940

During his 12-year MLB playing career, McQuinn played for the Cincinnati Reds (1936), St. Louis Browns (1938–45), Philadelphia Athletics (1946) and New York Yankees (1947–48).<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/> He was selected for the American League All-Star team six times (MLB cancelled the 1945 All-Star Game and no All-Stars were named that season).<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/>

In 1938, McQuinn had a .324 career-high batting average with 12 home runs, 42 doubles, 100 runs and 82 runs batted in (RBIs).<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/> In 1939, his batting average was .316 with 101 runs scored, 94 RBIs, 37 doubles, 13 triples and 20 home runs.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/> The following year he had 39 doubles, 10 triples and 16 home runs.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/> In 1944, his opening-game home run gave the Browns their first victory and was their only home run in a World Series game.

In 1947, at the age of 36, McQuinn hit .304 with 13 home runs and 80 RBIs, and was nominated for the MVP Award.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/> He retired at the end of the 1948 season at the age of 38.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/>

McQuinn had a career batting average of .276, and a total of 135 home runs and 794 RBIs in 1,550 games. He recorded a .992 fielding percentage playing every inning of his major league career at first base.<ref name="George McQuinn statistics"/> After retiring, he was a manager for the Quebec Braves in the farm system of the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, and scouted for the Washington Senators and Montreal Expos.

He was inducted into the Arlington Sports Hall of Fame in 1958 and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1978. He died of a stroke in an Alexandria, Virginia hospital, at the age 68 on December 24, 1978.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

See also

• List of Major League Baseball players to hit for the cycle
• Van Lingle Mungo (song)

Further reading

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External links

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