Prince\'s Major League audition came after a mediocre 1962 season with the Cubs\' Triple-A Salt Lake City Bees affiliate, where he won 10 of 24 decisions and had a high earned run average of 5.31, largely as a starting pitcher. In his one MLB game, he pitched in relief in the ninth inning of a 4–1 loss to the New York Mets at the Polo Grounds. He issued a base on balls to the first man he faced, Joe Christopher, then hit the next batter, Frank Thomas. But Jim Hickman got Prince off the hook by grounding into a 1-6-3 double play and Sammy Drake bounced out to second.\n', '

Prince then returned to the minor leagues for the 1963–1964 seasons before retiring from baseball.\n', '

In 1996, Prince was convicted in a murder for hire plot in the Federal District Court in South Carolina. Prince received a 17 and a half year sentence for attempting to have two people murdered by an undercover police officer he believed to be a hit man.\n', '

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