Don Bacon
Donald John Bacon (born June 28, 1935 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA) is a former minor league baseball player and manager who is perhaps most notable for leading the Midwest League Clinton C-Sox to a league championship in 1963.
Education
Bacon attended Sapulpa High School and then Oklahoma A&M. During his senior year at Sapulpa High School, he won all-state honors. While at college, he played both baseball and basketball.
Playing career
Bacon was an infielder, playing from 1955 to 1958 and from 1961 to 1964 in the Chicago White Sox farm system. Despite collecting over 100 hits in a season five times, Bacon never collected more than 24 extra base hits in a single year. Overall, he played in 790 minor league games, collecting 704 hits. He batted .262.
Managerial career
Bacon's first year as a manager was spent with the C-Sox in 1963, the same year he led them to a league championship. He won the Manager of the Year award in 1963. He started 1964 as the team's manager, however he was replaced by Hugh Mulcahy, who was eventually replaced by Bacon himself. Bacon managed the Sarasota Sun Sox to an 85-53 record in 1965. In 1966, he led the Deerfield Beach/Winter Haven Sun Sox to a 55-83 record. He was the youngest manager in the White Sox system during his time as minor league manager.
Don Bacon (general)
Donald J. Bacon is a retired United States Air Force Brigadier General and a member of the Republican Party.
Bacon is a native of Illinois. He attended Northern Illinois University and then gained his commission through Officers' Training School. During his career he served as the Installation Commander for Ramstein Airbase in Germany and at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. *"Brigadier General Donald J. Bacon". United States Air Force. At the age of 50, Bacon retired from the Air Force. He served as an aide to U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry and as an assistant professor at Bellevue University. He will run in the Republican Party primary election for the U.S. House of Representatives in Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the 2016 elections.
Bacon and his wife, Angie, have four children and live in Papillion, Nebraska.
