Buster Mills, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player and coach
Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1908
Place of Birth: Ranger, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 01-Dec-1991
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Buster Mills
- Colonel Buster Mills (September 16, 1908 – December 1, 1991) was an American outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball.
- A native of Ranger, Texas, in his playing days, he stood 5 ft 11 1/2 in (1.82 m) (181.6 cm) tall, weighed 195 pounds (88.5 kg), and threw and batted righthanded.His father, Elvis, owned a general store in Ranger, Texas.
- 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.
- (During World War II, he enjoyed introducing himself to officers as "Colonel Mills".) He lettered in football, basketball, track and baseball at the University of Oklahoma and was named all-Big Six quarterback.
- 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.
- Mills signed with Cleveland, but ended up in the extensive St.
- Louis Cardinals farm system during the early 1930s, receiving a 29-game trial with the 1934 "Gashouse Gang" Cardinals and then a 17-game tryout with the 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 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 (1946), Chicago White Sox (1947–50), Cincinnati Redlegs (1953) and Red Sox (1954) and managed in minor league baseball.
- He was the interim manager of the 1953 Redlegs, 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 Kansas City Athletics, then the Yankees. He died in Arlington, Texas, at the age of 83.
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