| 词条 | Buster Mills |
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}}Colonel Buster Mills (September 16, 1908 – December 1, 1991) was an American outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball.[1] A native of Ranger, Texas, in his playing days, he stood {{height|ft=5|in=11+1/2}} (181.6 cm) tall, weighed 195 pounds (88.5 kg), and threw and batted righthanded.[2] His father, Elvis, owned a general store in Ranger, Texas.[2] Elvis and Lucy Mills gave their fourth child the unusual first name of Colonel, after the rank of either Elvis's best friend or a Civil War great-uncle.[2] (During World War II, he enjoyed introducing himself to officers as "Colonel Mills".[2]) He lettered in football, basketball, track and baseball at the University of Oklahoma and was named all-Big Six quarterback.[2] He graduated with a degree in geology in 1931. A St. Louis Cardinals scout saw him hit for the cycle (including two doubles) in a baseball game against Washington University in St. Louis. However, when he asked for the player's name, he was told it was Wahl. The scout had to leave, but left a message to sign the (wrong) player.[2] Mills signed with Cleveland,[2] but ended up in the extensive St. Louis Cardinals farm system during the early 1930s, receiving a 29-game trial with the {{mlby|1934}} "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals and then a 17-game tryout with the {{mlby|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 {{mlby|1940}}, Mills batted .397 in 63 at bats for the Yankees,[2] largely as a pinch hitter. After military service in World War II, Mills became a coach for the Indians (1946), Chicago White Sox (1947–50), Cincinnati Redlegs (1953) and Red Sox (1954) and managed in minor league baseball.[2] He was the interim manager of the 1953 Redlegs, finishing the unexpired term of Rogers Hornsby, who resigned late in the season.[2] Mills' record in Cincinnati was 4–4 (.500).[2] After his coaching career, Mills spent many seasons as a scout for the Kansas City Athletics, then the Yankees. He died in Arlington, Texas, at the age of 83. References1. ^{{cite book|title=The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia|year=2007|publisher=1-4027-4771-3|pages=744}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite web |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/89af0f16 |title=Buster Mills |author=Bill Nowlin |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research}}
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