Joseph Bernard Millay (25 June 1914 – 26 November 2001) was a Minor League Baseball pitcher for the Superior Blues in 1936 and the Winnipeg Maroons in 1937–1938.[1] He left professional baseball in 1938 when his father, who managed a bakery in Evansville, Indiana, was severely injured by an oven explosion.
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Millay graduated from Reitz Memorial High School in Evansville, Indiana in 1933. He graduated with his B.A. in Physical Education from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1937.[2] he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was stationed at the Naval Air Station, Trinidad, where, among other duties, he was a bowling instructor.[3]
According to a 1945 Ripley's Believe It or Not article, Millay is the only athlete to achieve perfection in three sports in the same year. In 1938, he rolled a 300 in bowling, scored an ace in golf, and pitched a no-hit, no-run game for a professional baseball team. In his lifetime, he scored two aces in golf, pitched two no-hit games in professional baseball, and rolled 13 perfect games in bowling.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Joe Millay". Baseball-Reference.Com.
- ^ a b Brek News Beat, page 1, Vol. 14, No. 38, 3 October 1979. A weekly publication of the Singer Breckenridge Job Corps Center, Morganfield, Kentucky,
- ^ "Down the Alley". The Nebraska State Journal. Lincoln, Nebraska. April 16, 1944. p. 10.