Harry Mallory Minor (March 7, 1928 – January 18, 2017) was a professional baseball player, manager and scout. Listed at 6' 2", 210 lb., he batted and threw right handed. Born in Long Beach, California, Minor graduated from Wilson Classical High School where he excelled in both baseball and football. He then was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1946, starting a professional career that spanned 65 years. At first, he bounced around five organizations for over a decade in the Minor Leagues, through 1960, going from the Pirates to the Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee Braves. A sturdy, savvy catcher, Minor also contributed as a pitcher, corner infielder and outfielder. He began scouting with the Braves in 1960 before moving to the New York Mets in 1967, for what turned on to be a 44-year relationship that included the 1986 World Series Championship and his becoming the first scout into the Mets Hall of Fame in 2013. Minor began his career as a pitcher-outfielder for the Class A Riverside Dons of the Sunset League in 1947, where he posted a 6-10 record with a 6.29 ERA in 22 pitching appearances and also played 41 games at outfield. Overall, he hit a solid slash line of .299/.370/.462 with seven home runs and 47 runs batted in. In 1948 Minor gained promotion to the Waco Pirates in the Class B Big State League. While there, he hit a .273 average and slugged .429 through 100 games, including 27 doubles, two triples and nine homers. His most productive season came in 1949 with Class C Keokuk Pirates, when he topped the Central Association with a .350 average and finished second both in home runs (24) and slugging (.579). Unfortunately, Minor never was able to rise above Triple A level in any of his minor league seasons, and those moments came only in the International League with the Buffalo Bisons, in 1950, and for the Ottawa Athletics in 1953 and 1954. In between, he was called into active military service during Korean War. Afterwards, Minor enjoyed three seasons of double duty from 1958 through 1960 as a player-manager for the Class D Wellsville Braves in the New York–Penn League, where he had an overall managing record of 299-222 (.574) for those seasons. The Braves benefited from his guidance in 1958, when they went 70-56 and clinched the pennant but