Steve Mingori: “He Loved the Game of Baseball”

The tributes to Steve Mingo Mingori all mirror one another. His former battery mate with the Kansas City Royals, John Wathan, said Mingori was “a good person, a good teammate.” Warren Turner, who played alongside Mingori years earlier at Pittsburg State University, said he “enjoyed life, and he loved the game of baseball.” Mingori carved out a dominant senior season as a left-handed pitcher for the Gorillas in 1964 and parlayed that success into an eventual 10-year Major League Baseball career with the Cleveland Indians (1970-73) and ultimately his hometown Royals (1973-79). In less than two weeks, Mingori will be…