Don Prince
Donald Mark Prince (April 5, 1938 – November 8, 2017) was an American professional baseball player. He had a seven-year (1958–1964) active career, but appeared in only one inning of one Major League Baseball game for the 1962 Chicago Cubs. He stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg) and attended Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.
| Don Prince | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
| Born: April 5, 1938 Clarkton, North Carolina | |||
| Died: November 8, 2017 (aged 79) Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | |||
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 21, 1962, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 21, 1962, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 0–0 | ||
| Earned run average | 0.00 | ||
| Innings pitched | 1 | ||
| Teams | |||
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Prince's Major League audition came after a mediocre 1962 season with the Cubs' Triple-A Salt Lake City Bees affiliate, where he won 10 of 24 decisions and had a high earned run average of 5.31, largely as a starting pitcher.[1] In his one MLB game, he pitched in relief in the ninth inning of a 4–1 loss to the New York Mets at the Polo Grounds. He issued a base on balls to the first man he faced, Joe Christopher, then hit the next batter, Frank Thomas. But Jim Hickman got Prince off the hook by grounding into a 1-6-3 double play and Sammy Drake bounced out to second.[2]
Prince then returned to the minor leagues for the 1963–1964 seasons before retiring from baseball.
In 1996, Prince was convicted in a murder-for-hire plot in the Federal District Court in South Carolina. Prince received a 17 1⁄2-year sentence for attempting to have two people murdered by an undercover police officer he believed to be a hit man.[3]
Prince died November 8, 2017.[4]
References
External links
- Career record and playing statistics from Baseball Reference
- http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Unpublished/974329.U.pdf