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, 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 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,...