Lest we forget: Don Mincher (with update)

March 6, 2012 · 1 comment

When you’re a young kid, you don’t have any real concept of age. One of the first things you say to a new contemporary is, “I’m seven; how old are you?” When you go to camp, you think the counselors are adults, even though they’re only a few years your senior.

But now that I’m in the middle age phase (well, middle age is I was going to live another 50 years, I guess), it’s more and more likely to see that a player I had watched as a youngster has passed away. In many cases, it’s someone whose card was among the first I acquired when I was collecting back in the mid1960s. So it is with Don Mincher, who died March 4 at the age of 73.

UPDATE: Bruce Markusen, who contributes the series of “baseball card mysteries” to The Hardball Times, offers his own tribute to Mincher.

 

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1 azulnaranja March 6, 2012 at 4:00 pm

Sad to hear about Mincher.  As I remember he played a pretty big part in Ball Four.

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