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James Edison Picken (August 7, 1903 – April 2, 1975) was an early American professional
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player. He was born in
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but grew up in
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. Picken's basketball career during the 1920s and 1930s saw him spend time in the original American Basketball League, the Eastern Basketball League, and the Metropolitan Basketball League. His younger brother, Eddie Picken, was also a professional basketball player. Picken attended
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and then
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, where he lettered in
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,
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,
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, and
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. Immediately after college he played for the Easton Farmers in the
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during the 1927 season, but quit after one year. He had only managed a .196
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in 51
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s, so he decided to focus on playing professional basketball as well as becoming a
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. Over the years he coached high school football, basketball, and baseball at various high schools in New York and New Jersey. While coaching
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's football team, he won three conference championships in nine years. A resident of
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,Frambes, Doug
"Jimmy Picken, Ex-Star and Coach, Back in S.J. to Stay"
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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.


References

;General * ''Courier-Post'' (Cherry Hill, New Jersey), April 4, 1975. Retrieved on August 8, 2019. * ''
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