1943

After the 1942 season the Philadelphia Athletics traded Dee Miles. He was working in a defense plant in Bessemer, Alabama, and said he would refuse to report. He intended to keep the job and play semipro ball, but somehow was in touch with Red Sox manager Joe Cronin and, in Harold Kaese’s words, Cronin gave him a “fight-talk” and told him “he wasn’t the ball player he should be." This fired him up and on April 21, 1943, he and his family turned up in Philadelphia, ready to play for the visiting Red Sox ...

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