| DATE SHOT: 1957 SUBJECT: Rod Miller APPROXIMATE SIZE: 4"x6" MARKS / STAMPING: Hand-signed by Rod Miller ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Signature is original, Photo is Type 4 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, in a later period SIGNER: Rod Miller COMMENTS / CONDITION: As with all of my signed items, the signature is guaranteed to pass further inspection by any major authenticator, or your money back. See scans for signature quality and photo condition. BIO: Rodney Carter Miller was born in 1940 in Portland, OR and died in 2013 in Cascade, ID. He played major league baseball for a single season in a single game in 1957 as pinch hitter for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Miller talked about his one at-bat in the majors: "It was the next to the last day of the season in Philadelphia. The Dodgers were up 8-3 in the eighth inning when Walter Alston told me to pinch-hit for Randy Jackson. I had to be coaxed by Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider that he wasn't kidding me. The pitcher for the Phillies was Jack Meyer and the catcher was Joe Lonnett, who was telling me the pitches, but I struck out swinging." Rodney would spend three more seasons in pro baseball, all in the minors, with five teams in different leagues. Miller would leave baseball as he was drafted into the United States Marines for a four year tour of duty. After his tour of duty Miller worked for a steel company in Los Angeles, CA for several years and moved to Reno, NV in 1988 where he was employed with the Athletic Training Equipment Company, a firm that was owned by the late Jack Shepard, a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1953 to 1956, which manufactured baseball pitching machines. Rod retired and moved to Idaho in 2009. SKU: L13957
Item: L13957
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