Larry Kincaid played both basketball and baseball while at Stivers. His basketball career was cut short due to a leg injury during his senior year but he was a member of the 1953-54 team that was runner-up in the City League with a record of 16 wins and 5 losses.
Baseball is where he excelled as a pitcher. One article reported that Stivers pitcher Larry Kincaid stopped Fairview’s 9 game winning streak by topping the Bulldogs ace pitcher, Ron Nischwitz, (who went on to pitch for both the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers) 5-4. In his next outing, Kincaid fanned 10 batters in a no-hit shutout over Franklin in the Dayton District Class A baseball tournament, where he was only one walk away from a perfect game. He also had another no-hitter during the season but unfortunately Stivers lost that game. As a starting pitcher, both his junior and senior years, he held opposing batters to an overall batting average of .207 and had an earned run average of 1.84.
After graduation, he was invited to several Major League tryout camps and was offered a contract, but had to decline due to his military obligations. He had enlisted into the Air Force in the summer of 1955 and served four years of active duty, including a 12-month tour of duty in Korea, plus 2 years in the reserves.
While in the service he played basketball and baseball for military base teams while serving in the States and Korea. In 1958 he played on a basketball team that was runner-up in the 8th Air Force Tournament and on the baseball team that was also the runner-up in the 1959 USAF Tournament.
In the 1960’s, after his days in the Air Force, he returned to the mound as a starting pitcher on a semi-pro Class AA baseball team. In 1973 as a 36 year old college kid, he pitched for Sinclair Community College.
In 1996 he was selected to the National Police Softball Tournament Silver Anniversary All-Star Tournament Team. At the 2018 World Series of Police Softball Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, during the Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, Larry was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his over 40 years of contributions to police softball.
After an illustrious 30-year career with the Dayton Police Department, he worked for 7 more years with the Apache Junction, Arizona police department.
Larry and his wife Barbara have two children, two grand children, and five great-grandchildren. They now reside in Ocala, Florida.
