Collingswood, New Jersey
Collingswood is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, located east of Center City Philadelphia. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the borough's population was 13,926,original American Basketball League, the Eastern Basketball League, and the Metropolitan Basketball League. His younger brother,
Eddie Picken
Edward C. Picken Sr. (June 13, 1907 – November 17, 1994) was an early American professional basketball player. He played in two games in the Eastern Basketball League for Camden Athletic Club during the 1931–32 season.
Picken attended Colling ...
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soccer
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, basketball, and baseball. Immediately after college he played for the Easton Farmers in the Eastern Shore League during the 1927 season, but quit after one year. He had only managed a .196 batting average in 51
at bat
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s, so he decided to focus on playing professional basketball as well as becoming a schoolteacher. Over the years he coached high school football, basketball, and baseball at various high schools in New York and New Jersey. While coaching Audubon High School's football team, he won three conference championships in nine years.
A resident of Moorestown, New Jersey,Frambes, Doug "Jimmy Picken, Ex-Star and Coach, Back in S.J. to Stay" ''
Courier-Post
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'', October 20, 1971. Accessed August 9, 2019. "Living in happy retirement in a beautiful new home in colonial Moorestown is a gentleman who belies the immortal words of author Thomas Wolfe." Picken died there on April 2, 1975.
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* ''Courier-Post'' (Cherry Hill, New Jersey), April 4, 1975. Retrieved on August 8, 2019.
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