John Melvin Crimian (February 17, 1926 – February 11, 2019) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher. A right-hander, he appeared in 74 total games pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals (1951–52), Kansas City Athletics (1956) and Detroit Tigers (1957). The native of Philadelphia was listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 180 pounds (82 kg).\n', '

Crimian attended Olney High School in his native city and signed with his hometown Philadelphia Phillies in 1944. After wartime service in the United States Army in 1945, he returned to baseball in 1946, put up a 13–4 record with the Class B Wilmington Blue Rocks, and was drafted by the Cardinals out of the Phillies\' organization that winter.\n', '

He spent another 4​1⁄2 years in minor league baseball before his call up to St. Louis in July 1951. In his first MLB trial, he got into seven games that month, all in relief, and was treated roughly, allowing 24 hits and eight bases on balls in 17 innings pitched. However, he registered his first big-league victory on July 15 by pitching 3​2⁄3 innings of three-hit, one-run relief to beat his original team, the Phillies, 7–4, in the first game of a doubleheader at Shibe Park. The Cardinals gave Crimian another audition in June 1952; manager Eddie Stanky used him out of the bullpen in five games and 8​1⁄3 innings. Crimian had a difficult outing on June 15, however, against the New York Giants, giving up seven hits and six earned runs in only one-third of an inning, and was returned to the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings for the remainder of 1952.\n', '

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