1261) Jack Curran

John Joseph "Jack" Curran (1930 – 2013). American baseball and basketball coach. Curran was the head coach at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York. He won more basketball and baseball games than any high school coach in the United States. He has been elected into nine different Halls of Fame.

- "Curran was a respectable gentleman with an old Irish face and a brush of fading red hair."  https://books.google.fr/books…

- ''Hero of the night was Johnny Curran, a 6-foot 3-inch red-headed right-hander..."  https://www.nytimes.com/…/father-basketball-long-into-overt…

- "But as a son of the city, I can remember him as a scrawny, big-eared red-headed sub with the good St. John’s basketball teams..."  https://www.georgevecsey.com/…/honoring-jack-curran-lifer-c…