Miller Huggins is a character based on American baseball player and manager Miller Huggins.Miller James Huggins was born on 27 March 1879 in Cincinnati. Upon graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of Law (where he was captian of its baseball team), one of his professors, William Howard Taft, advised him to play baseball. Huggins was admitted to the bar, but never practiced law.He broke in with his hometown Reds in 1904, and was player-manager of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1913-1917. Although his teams never finished better than third, he was recommended by American League president Ban Johnson to Jacob Ruppert as the new manager of Ruppert's New York Yankees. Huggins's hiring cause such a rift between Ruppert and co-owner Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, Huston sold Ruppert his share of the team in 1922.Backed by general manager Ed Barrow, Huggins whipped a scurrilous bunch of rowdies into a juggernaut, laying the foundation for the dominance which would continue for decades. The teams that won 6 pennants and 3 World Series under Huggins included the 1927 squad, considered the greatest in history. Huggins and the team's super star, Babe Ruth, had more than a few rows, but Ruth once said that he never respected any man in baseball more than Huggins.He died of erysipelas, a skin infection, on 25 September 1929, 5 days after stepping down as manager. The first plaque placed in Yankee Stadium's Memorial Park was dedicated to Huggins. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1964.His imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5006106/ Show less «