Rudolph Anthony Minarcin [Buster] was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1955 through 1957 for the Cincinnati Redlegs and Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6' 0", 195 lb., he batted and threw right-handed. Born in North Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, Minarcin was a two-sport star at Vandergrift High School, being the captain for both baseball and football teams. During his junior and senior years, Minarcin pitched eight one-hitters, won 10 straight games, and was a member of the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League championship team in 1948. He also was a quarterback for the football team at Vandergrift and received more than 30 scholarship offers, including one from Notre Dame, but he chose baseball instead and signed with the Vandergrift Pioneers, a minor league affiliate team of the Philadelphia Phillies organization. Minarcin spent four seasons in the minors from 1948 to 1951 before being drafted into military service during Korean War conflict. Taken by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1949 Rule V draft, he posted a 13?8 record and a 2.86 earned run average for Double A Tulsa Oilers in 1950. 

March 25th, 1930 in North Vandergrift-Pleasant View  /  Died:   Oct 15th, 2013