finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1958 8 april 2005 huntingdon valley , pennsylvania right burlington , new jersey 1944 september 26 .236 44 383 second baseman/outfielder cincinnati reds batting average home runs runs scored june 17 11 september 1926 eddie miksis.jpg eddie miksis
 brooklyn dodgers eddie miksis right
eddie miksis

edward thomas miksis -lrb- september 11 , 1926 -- april 8 , 2005 -rrb- was an american major league baseball player .
born in burlington , new jersey , he played at burlington city high school .
he stood and weighed 185 lbs .
miksis was signed by the brooklyn dodgers in 1944 and on june 17 , 1944 , at the age of 17 , he debuted in the majors and went on to have a 14-year career as a right-handed hitting and throwing utility infielder with the dodgers -lrb- 1944 -- 51 -rrb- , chicago cubs -lrb- 1951 -- 56 -rrb- , st. louis cardinals -lrb- 1957 -rrb- , baltimore orioles -lrb- 1957 -- 58 -rrb- and cincinnati reds -lrb- 1958 -rrb- .
miksis hit .236 for his career and played all four infield position plus the outfield .
only in five of his fourteen seasons did he play in more than 100 games .
miksis served in the navy for almost two years during the end of world war ii .
he played in both the 1947 and 1949 world series with the dodgers , both against the new york yankees .
miksis batted .273 in eight world series games .
in game 4 of the 1947 world series against the new york yankees , when bill bevens was attempting to complete the first no-hitter in the history of the world series , miksis pinch ran for an injured pete reiser with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning .
he scored from first base with the winning run on the dodgers ' only hit of the game , cookie lavagetto 's pinch hit double .
in june of , with the dodgers leading the national league by 14 1/2 games , miksis was traded to the chicago cubs .
his main claim to fame as a cub was lending his glove to ernie banks in banks ' first-ever major league game .
miksis played his final major league game on september 28 , 1958 , at the age of 32 , with the cincinnati reds .
miksis died on april 8 , 2005 , at the age of 78 , in huntingdon valley , pennsylvania .
