Edwin S. Quick was a Major League Baseball

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 pitcher

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 who played in 1903 with the New York Highlanders

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. He threw right-handed.

Quick started his professional baseball career in 1902 in the Pacific Northwest League

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. Late in the following season, he made one appearance for the Highlanders; he pitched two innings and gave up five runs. In January 1904, he was traded to Toledo. He went 18-18 for the Western League

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's Omaha Rourkes in 1905. Quick finished his career pitching in the Pacific Coast League

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 in 1907 and 1908.

Quick was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He died in Rocky Ford, Colorado

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 in 1913, of pneumonia

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