Dots Miller Big Glove Run COMPLETE

[michael3322]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I was the first one to uncover this fact after I bought postcards he was sending his family and signing them Dots from Spring Training in 1911. I figured he wouldn't be calling himself "Dots" to family members if it was a nickname given to him recently by the media. From there I searched newspapers in 1909 until the first mention I could find:

Miller got the nickname “Dots” as a small child due to his thick German accent. He would say “That’s mine” when he grabbed things, but the “That’s” came out as “Dots”. His teammates in Pittsburgh learned of the nickname during his first trip to Philadelphia as a player, when all of his friends and family showed up from Kearny NJ. A friend relayed the story to the Pittsburgh media and from then on it stuck, though they often called him Jack Miller in Pittsburgh and Dots was used more often for his hometown papers.

That's incredible. Well done!

[brianp-beme]

Then there is always this thread with a fuller list to complete the trifecta:

https://net54baseball.com/showthread...highlight=E101

Brian

[Baseballcrazy62]

Never saw anything quite like that. Super impressive!

[edhans]

Congrats on the spectacular run, Pete. Curious about your population estimates. Do you mean the total population known, graded and raw? Surely there are more than 75 and 4 E90-1s.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by edhans

Congrats on the spectacular run, Pete. Curious about your population estimates. Do you mean the total population known, graded and raw? Surely there are more than 75 and 4 E90-1s.

thanks folks...that original photo the dots image came from makes his glove look miniature...I like the artistically embellished big glove much better!!!!!

Ed...this is the PSA/SGC combined pops...which are far from accurate...just to get a rough idea...seeing as some people like pops!!!!