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Miller James Huggins (March 27, 1878 – September 25, 1929) was an American professional baseball player and manager. Huggins played second base for the Cincinnati Reds (1904–1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910–1916). He managed the Cardinals (1913–1917) and New York Yankees (1918–1929), including the Murderers' Row teams of the 1920s that won six American League (AL) pennants and three World Series championships. Huggins was born in Cincinnati. He received a degree in law from the University of Cincinnati, where he was also captain on the baseball team. Rather than serve as a lawyer, Huggins chose to pursue a professional baseball career. He played semi-professional and minor league baseball from 1898 through 1903, at which time he signed with the Reds. As a player, Huggins was adept at getting on base. He was also an excellent fielding second baseman, earning the nicknames "Rabbit", "Little Everywhere", and "Mighty Mite" for his defensive prowess and was later considered an intelligent manager who understood the fundamentals of the game. Despite fielding successful teams for the Yankees in the 1920s, he continued to make personnel changes in order to maintain his teams' superiority in the AL. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1964. ==Early life== Huggins was born in Cincinnati, where his father, an Englishman, worked as a grocer.〔 His mother was a native of Cincinnati. He had two brothers and one sister.〔 Huggins attended Woodward High School, Walnut Hills High School, and later the University of Cincinnati.,〔〔 where he studied law and played college baseball for the Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team. A shortstop, he was named team captain of the Bearcats in 1900.〔 Seeing him consumed with baseball, his law professors summoned him to justify why they should keep him in the law program.〔 Huggins' father, a devout Methodist, objected to his son playing baseball on Sundays. But Huggins played semi-professional baseball in 1898 for the Cincinnati Shamrocks, a team organized by Julius Fleischmann,〔 where he played under the pseudonym "Proctor" due to his father's opposition and his amateur status.〔〔 In 1900, he played for Fleischmann's semiprofessional team based in the Catskill Mountains, the Mountain Tourists, leading the team with a .400 batting average.〔〔 After receiving his law degree from Cincinnati, Huggins realized that he could make even more money playing baseball,〔 and as such William Howard Taft, one of Huggins' law professors, advised him to play baseball.〔 He was admitted to the bar, but never practiced law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miller Huggins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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