Don Prince

Don Prince
Pitcher
Born: April 5, 1938 (1938-04-05) (age 73) Clarkton, North Carolina
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 21, 1962 for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
September 21, 1962 for the Chicago Cubs
Career statistics
Win-Loss record	0–0
Earned run average	0.00
Innings pitched	1
Hits allowed	0
Bases on balls	1
Teams
Chicago Cubs (1962)

Donald Mark Prince (born April 5, 1938, at Clarkton, North Carolina) is a retired 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.

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.

References

1. ^ Minor league statistics from Baseball Reference
2. ^ 1962-9-21 box score from Retrosheet

External links

• Career record and playing statistics from Baseball Reference

Persondata
Name	Prince, Don
Alternative names
Short description	American baseball player
Date of birth	April 5, 1938
Place of birth	Clarkton, North Carolina
Date of death
Place of death