Mincer Minor played center field for Vicksburg High’s baseball team, but when he heads off to college this summer he’ll try to turn a double play.

Minor celebrated a rare athletic achievement on Wednesday by signing with Mississippi Delta Community College to play baseball. In February he signed with the school to play football, making him a two-sport college athlete.

“It’s not a lot of people that can say they went to college and played two sports. To be able to do that is a great accomplishment,” Minor said. “It’s something I always wanted to do and now I’m getting a chance to do it.”

Minor has been a three-sport star at Vicksburg High during an excellent athletic career. In addition to baseball and football, he was a starter on the boys’ basketball team.

In football, Minor had two interceptions and was a first-team All-Region 2-6A selection in 2024 as a defensive back. In baseball he batted .286 and scored 17 runs this season. In basketball he led the Gators in scoring with 12 points per game.

“Basketball, if they gave me a scholarship for that I’d go and do that too,” he said with a laugh.

No scholarship offers were forthcoming from Mississippi Delta on that front, but they did seem to fly fast and furious from all of the other coaches.

Minor said he was on a campus visit to check out the football program last fall when Mississippi Delta baseball coach Adrian Dorsey suggested he could help that team as well. It was an opportunity Minor couldn’t pass up.

“I was down there on my football visit and the baseball coach came and started talking about playing two sports. He said if I stay on top of my school work then he doesn’t care if I do both,” Minor said. “I was aiming for it, but I didn’t really have any baseball offers until I got up there. He said let’s do it. Play both.”

Playing one sport at the college level, where the workload and intensity ratchets up considerably from high school, is difficult for any athlete. Playing two, even moreso.

After juggling three sports at VHS for four years without an offseason, Minor thinks he’s ready for it.

“I feel like I can handle it,” he said. “I’ve been playing three for four years in high school, so two shouldn’t be a problem.”

He added that the skills he’s learned in one sport, from how to move to how to work, apply to the others and have made him a well-rounded athlete instead of a specialist.

“Playing all three sports, they translate. They help each other,” he said. “Basketball translates to football, football translates to baseball a little bit. Playing all three helped with my athletic ability.”

Minor thanked his family for supporting him during his athletic journey so far — both with emotional support and a bit of unspoken motivation.

Minor is the fourth member of his family to carry the first name “Mincer,” and the first three were all top-notch athletes. So were some of his uncles. Adding another link in the chain, he said, was something he’s proud of.

“It was really important. They would always tell me my dad, my uncles, my granddad, they would get on me and tell me they were better than me,” he said with a laugh. “I had to do the best that I could do or I was going to hear that all the time.”