SPORTS  :  Baseball  |  Football  |  Basketball  |  Hockey  |  Olympics  View Sports-Reference.com's new Olympic Section
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Bing Miller

Bing Miller
Edmund John Miller

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 0", Weight 185 lb.

Debut April 16, 1921
Final Game September 5, 1936
Born August 30, 1894 in Vinton, IA
Died May 7, 1966 in Philadelphia, PA

Brother of Ralph Miller

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Like this page? Sponsor it for $10 per year.

  

Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1921 26 WSH AL 114  420   57  121  28  8   9   73   3  4  25  50  .288  .334  .457  104  192  17           4    
 1922 27 PHA AL 143  535   90  179  29 12  21   90  10 10  24  42  .335  .371  .551  135  295  16           7    
 1923 28 PHA AL 123  458   68  137  25  4  12   64   9  3  27  34  .299  .344  .450  107  206  16           4    
 1924 29 PHA AL 113  398   62  136  22  4   6   62  11  5  12  24  .342  .376  .462  115  184  21          10    
 1925 30 PHA AL 124  474   78  151  29 10  10   81  11  6  19  14  .319  .355  .485  106  230  22           8    
 1926 31 TOT AL 132  463   73  149  33  7   6   63  11 10  33  18  .322  .376  .462  113  214  27           7    
         PHA AL  38  110   13   32   6  2   2   13   4  1  11   6  .291  .355  .436  101   48   8           0    
         SLB AL  94  353   60  117  27  5   4   50   7  9  22  12  .331  .382  .470  117  166  19           7    
 1927 32 SLB AL 143  492   83  160  32  7   5   75   8  7  30  26  .325  .375  .449  110  221  22           9     MVP-15
 1928 33 PHA AL 139  510   76  168  34  7   8   85  10  6  27  24  .329  .372  .471  117  240  19           8    
 1929 34 PHA AL 147  556   84  184  32 16   8   93  24  9  40  25  .331  .380  .489  119  272  13           4    
 1930 35 PHA AL 154  585   89  177  38  7   9  100  13 13  47  22  .303  .357  .438   97  256  19           3    
 1931 36 PHA AL 137  534   75  150  43  5   8   77   5  3  36  16  .281  .338  .425   95  227   5          10    
 1932 37 PHA AL  95  305   40   90  17  4   7   58   7  3  20  11  .295  .343  .446   99  136   3           2    
 1933 38 PHA AL  67  120   22   33   7  1   2   17   4  2  12   7  .275  .346  .400   96   48   0           1    
 1934 39 PHA AL  81  177   22   43  10  2   1   22   1  0  16  14  .243  .309  .339   70   60   3           1    
 1935 40 BOS AL  78  138   18   42   8  1   3   26   0  1  10   8  .304  .356  .442  100   61   5           1    
 1936 41 BOS AL  30   47    9   14   2  1   1    6   0  0   5   5  .298  .377  .447   98   21   2           1    
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 16 Seasons    1820 6212  946 1934 389 96 116  992 127 82 383 340  .311  .359  .461  108 2863 210   0   0  80   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        553   84  172  35  9  10   88  11  7  34  30  .311  .359  .461  108  255  19   0   0   7   0
 Career High    154  585   90  184  43 16  21  100  24 13  47  50  .342  .380  .551  135  295  27   0   0  10   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
Special Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1921 26 WSH AL  466  320   62   5.2   110| .288  .293| .334  .358| .457  .412| .791  .770| 104  .510   1.3   0.1  42%
 1922 27 PHA AL  582  382  104   7.3   112| .335  .297| .371  .362| .551  .417| .922  .779| 135  .687  23.5   2.3  50%
 1923 28 PHA AL  505  340   70   5.5   109| .299  .291| .344  .361| .450  .403| .794  .764| 107  .574   2.2   0.2  75%
 1924 29 PHA AL  441  288   66   6.1   113| .342  .299| .376  .369| .462  .411| .838  .780| 115  .602   7.1   0.7  68%
 1925 30 PHA AL  523  351   79   6.0   121| .319  .308| .355  .380| .485  .432| .840  .812| 106  .574   0.7   0.1  64%
 1926 31 TOT AL  530  351   76   5.8   114| .322  .296| .376  .369| .462  .416| .838  .784| 113  .594   8.0   0.8  52%
         PHA AL  129   87   17   5.2   115| .291  .297| .355  .370| .436  .417| .791  .787| 101  .548  -0.3   0.0  80%
         SLB AL  401  264   59   6.0   114| .331  .296| .382  .368| .470  .415| .852  .784| 117  .608   8.4   0.8  43%
 1927 32 SLB AL  553  361   79   5.8   113| .325  .297| .375  .365| .449  .417| .824  .782| 110  .583   6.9   0.7  53%
 1928 33 PHA AL  564  367   86   6.2   111| .329  .292| .372  .358| .471  .415| .843  .773| 117  .625  12.0   1.2  62%
 1929 34 PHA AL  613  394  103   7.0   116| .331  .297| .380  .364| .489  .429| .869  .793| 119  .651  13.7   1.3  72%
 1930 35 PHA AL  654  440   88   5.3   119| .303  .300| .357  .365| .438  .441| .795  .806|  97  .505  -3.1  -0.3  50%
 1931 36 PHA AL  585  392   74   5.0   113| .281  .294| .338  .362| .425  .420| .763  .782|  95  .512  -5.0  -0.5  62%
 1932 37 PHA AL  330  221   46   5.6   114| .295  .290| .343  .361| .446  .426| .789  .788|  99  .549  -1.5  -0.1  70%
 1933 38 PHA AL  133   89   16   4.8   107| .275  .282| .346  .353| .400  .406| .746  .760|  96  .507  -0.6  -0.1  66%
 1934 39 PHA AL  197  137   19   3.7   108| .243  .283| .309  .356| .339  .408| .648  .764|  70  .364  -7.9  -0.7 100%
 1935 40 BOS AL  154  102   21   5.5   117| .304  .296| .356  .370| .442  .428| .798  .797| 100  .542  -0.5   0.0   0%
 1936 41 BOS AL   55   35    8   6.1   127| .298  .306| .377  .383| .447  .450| .824  .833|  98  .542  -0.3   0.0   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 16 Seasons     6885 4570  997   5.8   114| .311  .296| .359  .364| .461  .420| .820  .784| 108  .577  56.4   5.7  60%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  LF   CF   RF
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1921 26 WSH AL OF 109 247 13 15 4 .945 .960 2.39 2.21 92 3 14 1922 27 PHA AL OF 139 314 19 8 3 .977 .964 2.40 2.22 15 90 36 1923 28 PHA AL OF 119 262 10 6 0 .978 .965 2.29 2.26 104 0 15 1924 29 PHA AL OF 94 172 11 5 4 .973 .970 1.95 2.27 10 9 75 1B 7 66 7 2 7 .973 .989 10.43 10.17 1925 30 PHA AL OF 115 190 7 5 1 .975 .965 1.71 2.27 22 0 96 1B 12 87 6 2 6 .979 .988 7.75 9.86 1926 31 TOT AL OF 128 272 13 15 2 .950 .966 2.23 2.23 36 16 80 PHA AL OF 34 53 1 0 0 1.000 .966 1.59 2.23 10 0 26 1B 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 10.30 SLB AL OF 94 219 12 15 2 .939 .966 2.46 2.23 26 16 54 1927 32 SLB AL OF 126 309 9 10 3 .970 .964 2.52 2.22 37 61 29 1928 33 PHA AL OF 133 298 8 10 2 .968 .973 2.30 2.22 28 43 66 1929 34 PHA AL OF 145 311 10 10 4 .970 .966 2.21 2.28 9 4 133 1930 35 PHA AL OF 154 309 10 8 3 .976 .965 2.07 2.16 0 13 142 1931 36 PHA AL OF 137 305 7 4 1 .987 .969 2.28 2.25 0 0 137 1932 37 PHA AL OF 84 180 3 4 0 .979 .967 2.18 2.28 5 0 79 1933 38 PHA AL OF 30 39 1 0 0 1.000 .971 1.33 2.21 10 3 18 1B 6 23 1 1 2 .960 .988 4.00 9.87 1934 39 PHA AL OF 46 72 2 0 1 1.000 .969 1.61 2.16 4 0 42 1935 40 BOS AL OF 29 48 2 2 0 .962 .971 1.72 2.30 1 0 28 1936 41 BOS AL OF 13 14 1 0 1 1.000 .968 1.15 2.29 7 0 7
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1924 29 PHA AL 1B 7 66 7 2 7 .973 .989 10.43 10.17 1925 30 PHA AL 1B 12 87 6 2 6 .979 .988 7.75 9.86 1926 31 PHA AL 1B 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 10.30 1933 38 PHA AL 1B 6 23 1 1 2 .960 .988 4.00 9.87 1921 26 WSH AL OF 109 247 13 15 4 .945 .960 2.39 2.21 92 3 14 1922 27 PHA AL OF 139 314 19 8 3 .977 .964 2.40 2.22 15 90 36 1923 28 PHA AL OF 119 262 10 6 0 .978 .965 2.29 2.26 104 0 15 1924 29 PHA AL OF 94 172 11 5 4 .973 .970 1.95 2.27 10 9 75 1925 30 PHA AL OF 115 190 7 5 1 .975 .965 1.71 2.27 22 0 96 1926 31 TOT AL OF 128 272 13 15 2 .950 .966 2.23 2.23 36 16 80 PHA AL OF 34 53 1 0 0 1.000 .966 1.59 2.23 10 0 26 SLB AL OF 94 219 12 15 2 .939 .966 2.46 2.23 26 16 54 1927 32 SLB AL OF 126 309 9 10 3 .970 .964 2.52 2.22 37 61 29 1928 33 PHA AL OF 133 298 8 10 2 .968 .973 2.30 2.22 28 43 66 1929 34 PHA AL OF 145 311 10 10 4 .970 .966 2.21 2.28 9 4 133 1930 35 PHA AL OF 154 309 10 8 3 .976 .965 2.07 2.16 0 13 142 1931 36 PHA AL OF 137 305 7 4 1 .987 .969 2.28 2.25 0 0 137 1932 37 PHA AL OF 84 180 3 4 0 .979 .967 2.18 2.28 5 0 79 1933 38 PHA AL OF 30 39 1 0 0 1.000 .971 1.33 2.21 10 3 18 1934 39 PHA AL OF 46 72 2 0 1 1.000 .969 1.61 2.16 4 0 42 1935 40 BOS AL OF 29 48 2 2 0 .962 .971 1.72 2.30 1 0 28 1936 41 BOS AL OF 13 14 1 0 1 1.000 .968 1.15 2.29 7 0 7
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ Position Total OF 1601 3342 126 102 29 .971 .966 2.17 2.24 380 242 997 1B 26 177 14 5 16 .974 .989 7.35 9.96 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+----+----+ Overall Total 1627 3519 140 107 45 .972 .967 2.25 2.36
An Important note about our fielding stats

Postseason Batting Gamelogs / Vs. Pitcher

 Year   Round Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG   SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
 1929   WS    PHA CHC     W   5  19   1   7  1  0  0   4   0   2  .368  .400  .421   0  2   1   0   1 
 1930   WS    PHA STL     W   6  21   0   3  2  0  0   3   0   4  .143  .136  .238   0  0   1   1   0 
 1931   WS    PHA STL     L   7  26   3   7  1  0  0   1   0   4  .269  .296  .308   0  0   1   0   1 
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
  3 World Series        2-1  18  66   4  17  4  0  0   8   0  10  .258  .275  .318   0  2   3   1   2 
+--------------------+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+

WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1927-AL-15-0.08
Car-939-0.08 shares

Batting Average
1922 AL-.335-5
1924 AL-.342-10
1928 AL-.329-6
Car-.311-94

Slugging %
1922 AL-.551-7

OPS
1922 AL-.922-7

Games
1930 AL-154-1

At Bats
1930 AL-585-9

Total Bases
1922 AL-295-6

Doubles
1931 AL-43-5

Triples
1922 AL-12-8
1929 AL-16-3

Home Runs
1922 AL-21-4
1923 AL-12-10

RBI
1928 AL-85-9

Strikeouts
1921 AL-50-9

Stolen Bases
1929 AL-24-3

Singles
1929 AL-128-10

Adjusted OPS+
1922 AL-135-7

Runs Created
1922 AL-104-10

Adjusted Batting Runs
1922 AL-23-7

Batting Wins
1922 AL-2.3-7

Extra-Base Hits
1922 AL-62-6

Offensive Win%
1922 AL-.687-7

Hit By Pitch
1922 AL-7-8
1924 AL-10-4
1925 AL-8-6
1926 AL-7-7
1927 AL-9-2
1928 AL-8-1
1929 AL-4-9
1931 AL-10-1

Sac. Hits
1926 AL-27-7
1930 AL-19-6
Car-210-77

Caught Stealing
1926 AL-10-9
1930 AL-13-3

Power/Speed Number
1922 AL-13.5-4
1923 AL-10.3-8
1925 AL-10.5-9
1928 AL-8.9-8
1929 AL-12.0-8

At Bats per Strikeout
1925 AL-33.9-7
1930 AL-26.6-6
1931 AL-33.4-4

At Bats per Home Run
1922 AL-25.5-5
1923 AL-38.2-8

Outs
1930 AL-440-4

Oldest Player
1931 AL-36-9
1932 AL-37-7
1933 AL-38-8
1934 AL-39-9
1935 AL-40-2
1936 AL-41-1

   

Black Ink: Batting - 1 (722) (Average HOFer ≈ 27)
Gray Ink: Batting - 35 (679) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 30.0 (266) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 40.0 (451) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Gee Walker (933)
  2. Dixie Walker (922)
  3. Bobby Veach (905)
  4. Carl Furillo (899)
  5. Ben Chapman (897)
  6. Sam West (893)
  7. Baby Doll Jacobson (886)
  8. Frank Baker (885) *
  9. Bob Meusel (884)
  10. Minnie Minoso (882)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. George Selkirk (943)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. George Selkirk (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Johnny Frederick (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Johnny Frederick (945)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Johnny Frederick (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Carl Reynolds (963)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Carl Reynolds (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Baby Doll Jacobson (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Baby Doll Jacobson (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Baby Doll Jacobson (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Dixie Walker (892)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Dixie Walker (886)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  13. Babe Herman (866)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  14. Minnie Minoso (878)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  15. Minnie Minoso (883)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

January 10, 1922: Traded as part of a 3-team trade by the Washington Senators with Jose Acosta to the Philadelphia Athletics. The Washington Senators sent Frank O'Rourke to the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Red Sox sent Roger Peckinpaugh to the Washington Senators. The Philadelphia Athletics sent Joe Dugan to the Boston Red Sox.

June 15, 1926: Traded by the Philadelphia Athletics to the St. Louis Browns for Baby Doll Jacobson.

December 13, 1927: Traded by the St. Louis Browns to the Philadelphia Athletics for Dolly Gray.

January 14, 1935: Released by the Philadelphia Athletics.

January 15, 1935: Signed as a Free Agent with the Boston Red Sox.

September 27, 1936: Released by the Boston Red Sox.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Uniforms 
View Bing Miller's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     DeadBallEra Obituary     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Bing Miller    

Viewed 30815 times through July 24, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Edmund Bing james jim jimmy John jon Miller

Pages Updated through July 23,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Bing Miller
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through July 23, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.