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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey

I have a few concerns about Charlie E. Miller's photo in the Facepack and posted in 2010 as a member of the Lowell team. I haven't found a record of him playing for Lowell, as St. Louis sent him briefly to Chattanooga for seasoning and then they promptly sent him back. They did, however, send Ed Miller to Lowell.

Second, are we certain the ballplayer was Charlie Miller and not John Fletcher Miller? They were brothers and both played in the Warrensburg area. Upon his retirement in 1956, the Warrensburg Star-Journal claims he played for the St. Louis Browns for one season and afterwards he coached for the University of Missouri. More interestingly, a newspaper clip from 1919 also references his time with the Browns.

If it is indeed Charlie that played for the Browns that one game in 1912, I did find an image of him as an older man. There are likely images of him at the University of Central Missouri archives as well.

Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey

I appreciate the background information on the image of Miller circulating right now. I've posted this confirmed image of Charlie E. Miller from the 8/7/1913 edition of the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal showing him as a member of the basketball team in college. There is a lengthy bio of him and his sports exploits and there is no mention of him playing for the Browns the previous season. I believe the attached newspaper clipping from the 7/11/1912 edition of the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal confirms that John Miller is the player who appeared for the Browns in that 1 game.

Originally Posted by Chickazoola

I've passed along cinemaodyssey's discovery of Johnny Miller to the SABR Biographical Research Committee. Hope to get it updated in the record book in the next little while.

The current version of the SABR Biographical Research Committee newsletter was released today, with the Miller correction discovered by Cinemaodyssey prominently featured. With the ID change broadly accepted, here is an image of Johnny Miller, pictured as an instructor at the University of Missouri in 1917.

Thanks, Cinemaodyssey and Chickalooza for the ID correction and publication!