Northwestern State University of Louisana

Doug began his baseball career at Northwestern in 1952, he played two full seasons in 52 and 53, and part of 1956 when he returned for the service. Don played 162 innings, he had 44 runs on 103 at bat, he had an ERA of 2.45.  He had a total of 15 wins and 6 losses. Don GSC record of 10 wins and 3 losses during the 52 season. During the conference in 1952 he pitched and won 3 conference games in 9 days. All of them were complete games.  These games were the first conference game to ever be started by a freshman at NSC.  For 13 years 52-65 he held the GSC record for the longest game pitched by a freshman (15 innings), it was a 3 to 1 win against Southwestern LA. During his pitching tenure he completed 15 out of 21 starts at Northwestern.