23 Facts About Milt Pappas

Milton Steven Pappas was an American professional baseball player.

Milt Pappas played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher from 1957 through 1973.

Milt Pappas was a three-time All-Star player for the Orioles and was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 1985.

In 1957, as a senior at Cooley High School, Milt Pappas was scouted by several teams and signed with the Orioles at the suggestion of Hal Newhouser, a former star pitcher for the Detroit Tigers who lived in the Detroit area.

Milt Pappas soon became the ace of the Orioles' staff, and was named an All-Star in 1962, pitching in both All-Star games.

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Milt Pappas was named starting pitcher in the 1965 All-Star Game.

In each year from 1959 through 1965, Milt Pappas never had a losing record, winning between 13 and 16 games.

In 1998, as Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa surpassed Roger Maris' single-season home run record, Milt Pappas admitted that he threw nothing but fastballs to Maris in giving up Roger's 59th home run in 1961.

Milt Pappas explained that he was upset that commissioner Ford Frick was planning to list separately the new home run mark if Maris did not eclipse Babe Ruth's 60 home runs in 1927 on or before the Yankees' 154th game.

In 1967 Milt Pappas won a team- and career-high 16 games, but when he got off to a slow start in 1968, he was dealt along with Bob Johnson and Ted Davidson by the Reds to the Atlanta Braves for Tony Cloninger, Clay Carroll and Woody Woodward on June 11,1968.

Five days later, against the Montreal Expos at Jarry Park, Milt Pappas was again part of baseball history, albeit on the other side, as he was responsible for Ron Hunt's 50th hit by pitch of the season, which broke the single-season record of 49 set by Hughie Jennings in 1896.

Milt Pappas complained unsuccessfully to home plate umpire Ken Burkhart that the pitch had been over the plate, and that Hunt had made no effort to get out of the way.

Milt Pappas believed he had struck out Stahl, and even decades later in 2008, he continued to begrudge Froemming.

Some 25 years later, a Chicago radio personality, during an interview with Milt Pappas, got Froemming on the phone and the two argued on the air.

Milt Pappas said in 2006 that he has seen videotape footage of that game on WGN and can see Froemming smirking immediately after the walk was issued; Froemming denied the charge.

Milt Pappas ended the game by retiring the next batter, ex-Cub Garry Jestadt.

Until Carlos Zambrano no-hit the Houston Astros on September 14,2008, Milt Pappas' had been the last no-hitter the Cubs had been involved in, either pitching it or having it pitched against them.

Milt Pappas retired with 209 victories, becoming the first-ever 200-game winner who did not win 20 games in any one season.

One theory was that Carole Milt Pappas was killed by a group of four men known as the Ripper Crew, as part of a satanic ritual.

In 1984, Tom Kokoraleis, who was convicted for the murder of Lorraine Borowski, led police to a field where Carole Milt Pappas was allegedly buried, but searchers could not find any remains.

Milt Pappas managed the Chicago Storm of the American Professional Slow-Pitch League during their 1977 season.

In 1990, Milt Pappas sold his house in Wheaton and moved with his second wife, Judi, a teacher of special needs children, to Beecher, Illinois, with their 5-year-old daughter Alexandria.

Milt Pappas was seriously injured in a February 2013 single-vehicle accident in Kankakee County when he crashed into a utility pole and rolled his Jeep Cherokee, fracturing eight ribs and lacerating an ear.