Major League Baseball Player, Professional Basketball Player. He held the distinction of experiencing a world championship in two different professional sports, when he accomplished these feats with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957 and the Boston Celtics from 1959 to 1961. Born Donald Eugene Conley, he was raised in the State of Washington, where he attended Columbia High School and it would be during this period, when he first excelled at baseball and basketball. He continued his athletic excellence on the collegiate level at Washington State University. For eleven seasons (1952 and 1954 to 1963), he was a pitcher with the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox. Signed as an amateur free agent by the Boston Braves in 1950, he made his Major League debut on April 17, 1952. During his rookie season (1954), he recorded fourteen wins, with a highly-respectable 2.96 ERA, as he finished in third-place in Rookie of the Year voting. During the 1957 season, he split time between the Braves's starting rotation (for which included Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette) and the bullpen, as he contributed to their world championship season. He appeared in one game during the 1957 World Series. After two-years with the Phillies (1959 to 1960), he returned to Boston, now with the Red Sox and produced a career-high fifteen wins in 1962. In 276 career regular season games, he compiled a 91 win, 96 loss record, with a 3.82 lifetime ERA, in 1,588 innings-pitched. During the course of his baseball career, he achieved all star status three-times. For six seasons (1952 to 1953, 1958 to 1961 and 1962 to 1964), he played at the power-forward position in the National Basketball Association with the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks. Selected by the Boston Celtics during the 10th round of the 1952 NBA Draft, he played in 351 career regular season NBA games. In addition, Conley played one season of professional basketball (1961) with the Washington Tapers of the American Basketball League. After retiring from sports, he became the proprietor of a paper manufacturing company. He was inducted into the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame in 1979 and is also a member of the Washington State University Athletic Hall of Fame.