Hall of Fame
Dave Quick, a left-handed pitcher from Amityville, NY, pitched four seasons (1961-64) for coach Turkey Hughes’ EKU baseball team and was selected recently to be on Eastern’s All-Century Team. He was a three-time, first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection, was the Co-OVC Player of the Year in 1963 and was chosen on the OVC’s 40th Anniversary All-Time Baseball Team in 1988. In 1962 as a sophomore, he compiled a 4-2 record in leading the Colonels to the OVC championship, including a 3-1 victory over Middle Tennessee in the OVC championship series. Quick also defeated East Tennessee 14-4 in the one-game playoff that clinched the OVC’s Eastern Division. Other outstanding efforts that season were a one-hit, 1-0 win over East Tennessee and a five-inning, two-hit, no-run outing vs. Kentucky. His best season came as a junior when he recorded a 6-2 record with a miniscule 1.38 E.R.A. That season, he struck out 66 batters in 60 innings and pitched one of the all-time impressive games in Colonel baseball history. He hurled a 12-inning, 2-0 shutout victory over Morehead State in a contest that saw him strike out 19 Eagle batters, allow only six hits and strike out the side in the third, sixth and 11th innings. Playing fewer games (17-24 games during his four-year span at EKU), Quick picked up 12 victories in his Eastern career. Upon graduating from EKU in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in education, he moved with his wife, Brenda to Dayton, OH, to teach high school. He then completed his master’s degree from Xavier University and his Ph.D. from Miami University.
