Larry Miller 1937-2018

[Met Hunter]

Not the comedian. The exMet pitcher.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=larry-don-miller&pid=188702748

[Edgy MD]

Was Miller the one who was publishing technical papers even as his career progressed, or am I thinking of someone else?

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Sounds like he was a good guy

[G-Fafif]

Note the obit says he was the last pitcher Casey Stengel removed from a game, Miller for McGraw, before Ol' Case went out on the town and broke his hip on Old Timers Weekend.

In his 32 Met appearances across two years, he pitched in only three wins, though the last of them provided a memorable platform for a Met who'd be around quite a while. On September 16, 1966, a game at Candlestick in which lefty Miller pitched to one batter (walking Willie McCovey), Buddy Harrelson tripled twice and stole twice, the second of a theft of home plate. The kid also turned a couple of double plays and cemented himself into the shortstop job for next year and next decade.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Was Miller the one who was publishing technical papers even as his career progressed, or am I thinking of someone else?

You may be thinking of Jay Hook, who had an engineering degree. He wrote a paper explaining how a curve ball curved (fluid mechanics, Bernoulian Principle, etc) but it was said that he never could throw one.


Anyhow, RIP, Larry.
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