John Charles Kucks (July 27, 1932 – October 31, 2013)[1] was an American pitcher for the New York Yankees and Kansas City Athletics in Major League Baseball.

Johnny Kucks won the final game of the 1956 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers, shutting out the Dodgers, 9–0 at Ebbets Field—the last World Series game ever played in that ballpark.

[3] On May 26, 1959 he was traded to the Kansas City Athletics, together with Jerry Lumpe and Tom Sturdivant, for Ralph Terry and Héctor López.

A longtime resident of Hillsdale, New Jersey since his days with the Yankees, Kucks worked as a stockbroker after his baseball career ended.

He died of cancer on October 31, 2013, at the Villa Marie Claire hospice in Saddle River, New Jersey.