Buster Mills

Buster Mills

Infobox MLB retired
name=Buster Mills
position=Outfielder


bgcolor1=black
bgcolor2=black
textcolor1=white
textcolor2=white
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=September 16, 1908
deathdate=death date and age|1991|12|1|1908|9|16
debutdate= April 18
debutyear= 1934
debutteam= St. Louis Cardinals
finaldate=June 1
finalyear=1946
finalteam=Cleveland Indians
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.287
stat2label=Home runs
stat2value=14
stat3label=Runs batted in
stat3value=163
teams=as Player
* St. Louis Cardinals (1934)
* Brooklyn Dodgers (1935)
* Boston Red Sox (1937)
* St. Louis Browns (1938)
* New York Yankees (1940)
* Cleveland Indians (1942, 1946)as Manager
* Cincinnati Reds (1953)
highlights=

Colonel Buster Mills (September 16, 1908December 1, 1991) was an American outfielder, coach. scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball. A native of Ranger, Texas, Mills received a degree in geology from Oklahoma University in 1931. In his playing days he stood 5'11½" (181.6 cm) tall, weighed 195 pounds (88.5 kg), and threw and batted righthanded.

Mills came through the extensive St. Louis Cardinals farm system during the early 1930s, receiving a 29-game trial with the by|1934 "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals and then a 17-game tryout with the by|1935 Brooklyn Dodgers. He played the rest of his MLB career in the American League for the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians (1937-40; 1942; 1946). Overall, he played in 415 games, and compiled a lifetime batting average of .287 with 14 home runs and 163 runs batted in. In by|1940, Mills batted .397 in 63 at bats for the Yankees, largely as a pinch hitter.

After military service in World War II, Mills became a coach for the Indians, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Red Sox between by|1946 and by|1954. He was the interim manager of the 1953 Reds, finishing the unexpired term of Rogers Hornsby, who resigned late in the season. Mills' record in Cincinnati was 4-4 (.500).

After his coaching career, Mills spent many seasons as a scout for the Yankees. He died in Arlington, Texas, at the age of 83.

References

*Spink, J.G. Taylor, ed., "The Baseball Register" 1954 edition. St. Louis: The Sporting News.

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/millsbu01.shtml Baseball Reference]


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