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This season 32-year-old Everett Mills of Hartford is hitting .343, which would be his highest career average if he finished out the season at that level. However, he's batted .308 for his career and has won three Gold Gloves and a Silver Slugger award at first base, which is substantially better than Mills did in his real-life baseball career.

There's not a ton of information out there about Mills - he was known as a good player but never really as a star during his career. Baseball Reference Bullpen says this about him:

Everett Mills, also called "Ev Mills," played all five years of the National Association's existence and the first year of the National League. His time as a ballplayer goes back at least as far as the 1865 Newark Eurekas, for whom he played first base. He holds the single-season record for most at-bats in a season without getting a walk. In 1875, he had 342 at-bats and not a single walk. This isn't entirely surprising, however, as in 1,525 career at-bats, he walked only 13 times and had 12 strikeouts.

Mills managed the 1872 Baltimore Canaries for 14 games.

The book When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-70 calls him a "jovial, wise-cracking first baseman."

Here's what Nemec has to add:

In 1886 Ned Cuthbert told The Sporting News of a game he recalled in 1871 in which Everett Mills had lined a shot back through the box that had nearly decapitated Chicago's Ed Pinkham. Cuthbert also recollected that Mills liked low pitches and Pinkham, a southpaw, threw him a steady diet of outcurves, suggesting that Mills was a left-handed hitter. Mills began with the Eureka club of Newark, New Jersey in 1864 and by 1869 had joined the New York Mutuals, remaining with them through 1870.

A steady performer throughout the National Association's five-year history, Mills tumbled in 1876 when he scored just 28 runs for Hartford in 63 games. He played with Milwaukee of the League Alliance in 1877, briefly in the 1878 International Association, and then served as sergeant-at-arms in Quarter Sessions Court in Newark, New Jersey, before dying of heart disease in 1908.

So, not that notable of a career in real life, but he's been a solid above-average player in my universe. He's 32 this season, so he's probably on the downward slope of his career, but he's been a very solid player and continues to be one.