Bing Miller Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R 72 Weight: 185 Born: 8 30, 1894 in Vinton, IA USA Died: 5 7 1966 in Philadelphia, PA USA Debut: 4/16/1921 Last Game: 9/5/1936 Full Name: Edmund John Miller Bing Miller’s professional career began at 16 when he joined the Vinton Cinders. By 1912 he was the pitcher…
1935 – Outfielder Bing Miller is purchased by the Boston Red Sox from the Philadelphia Athletics.
1934 – An All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails on tour to Hawaii and Japan. Players with wives include Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty Gómez, Earl Averill and Lefty O’Doul.
Special Memory or Event? Want to have some fun? Advertise your business? Dedicate this page Apr 21, 1932 – At Yankee Stadium, the Philadelphia A’s down 6-3 in the top of the 9th facing Red Ruffing score five runs in the 8th to beat the Yankees eight to six. Ed Coleman reached on an…
Special Memory or Event? Want to have some fun? Advertise your business? Dedicate this page Oct 2, 1930 – At Shibe Park, game two on the World Series, Flint Rhem is a surprise starter for the St Louis Cardinals but he fails to astonish the Athletics batters. He gives up 6 earned runs in…
At Cleveland’s League Park, the A’s pull off two triple steals in one game. The double-triple takes place in the first inning and then again in the fourth as Philadelphia, who pummels the Indians, 14-1, will steal only 48 bases this season for the second-lowest total in the league, being six swipes ahead of the Red Sox.
1929 – The Philadelphia Athletics rally for three runs in the 9th inning to beat the Chicago Cubs, 3 – 2, and take the World Series in five games. A two-run home run by Mule Haas ties the game and Bing Miller hits a RBI double to get the victory. There won’t be another winning rally by a team down two runs in the 9th inning of a Series final game in the 20th century. The Arizona Diamondbacks, in 2001, will do it next.
NMay 4, 1925 At Yankee Stadium 25 year old rookie Lefty Grove records his first win pitching 4 innings in relief. The Philadelphia a’s were down 7-6 entering the 9th when Max Bishop took another future hall of famer Waite Hoyt deep to tie the game and the A’s push across another run on a…
On Wednesday, August 22, 1923 At Comiskey Park the Philadelphia Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 in 13 innings. In the 12th inning White Sox Sloppy Thurston, facing Beauty McGowan, Chick Galloway, Sammy Hale pitches an immaculate innings. Thurston will give up a single to Bing Miller and he will steal second and score…
1922 – The following round-robin deal benefits everyone: Roger Peckinpaugh goes from the Boston Red Sox to the Washington Senators; Joe Dugan, from the Philadelphia Athletics to Boston; and Bing Miller and Jose Acosta, from Washington to Philadelphia. Acosta will be sold to the Chicago White Sox on February 4th.