Miller Huggins

Miller Huggins
Huggins with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1910
Second baseman / Manager
Born: March 27, 1878 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died: September 25, 1929(1929-09-25) (aged 51) New York City, New York, U.S.
Batted: Switch Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 15, 1904, for the Cincinnati Reds
Last MLB appearance
September 13, 1916, for the St. Louis Cardinals
MLB statistics
Batting average	.265
Home runs	9
Runs batted in	318
Stolen bases	324
Managerial record	1,413–1,134
Winning %	.555
Teams
As player Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916) As manager St. Louis Cardinals (1913–1917) New York Yankees (1918–1929)
Career highlights and awards
3× World Series champion (1923, 1927, 1928) Monument Park honoree
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1964
Election method	Veterans Committee

Miller James Huggins (March 27, 1878^[1] – September 25, 1929) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916). He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships.

Huggins was born in Cincinnati. He received a degree in law from the University of Cincinnati, where he was also captain on the baseball team. Rather than serve as a lawyer, Huggins chose to pursue a professional baseball career. He played semi-professional and minor league baseball from 1898 through 1903, at which time he signed with the Reds.

As a player, Huggins was adept at getting on base. He was also an excellent fielding second baseman, earning the nicknames "Rabbit", "Little Everywhere", and "Mighty Mite" for his defensive prowess and was later considered an intelligent manager who understood the fundamentals of the game. Despite fielding successful teams for the Yankees in the 1920s, he continued to make personnel changes in order to maintain his teams' superiority in the AL. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1964.