Rick Miller (baseball)


Richard Alan Miller is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1971 to 1985. Miller attended Union High School and was a star athlete in the Grand Rapids City League. He spent 12 of his 15 seasons as a member of the Boston Red Sox, he also played with the California Angels. Miller was an accomplished fielder who won a Gold Glove in 1978 for his play in center field.
In a 15-year career covering 1482 games, Miller compiled a.269 batting average with 552 runs, 28 home runs and 369 RBI. Defensively, he recorded a.986 fielding percentage at all three outfield positions and first base. In the postseason, in the 1975 World Series and 1979 American League Championship Series, he batted.222 with 2 runs scored.
In 2007, Miller was named as the manager of the Nashua Pride of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, a team he managed through the end of the 2008 season. In 2012, he was named the manager of the New Bedford Bay Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
Miller is the brother in law of former teammate Carlton Fisk, having married Fisk's sister Janet.