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Hildreth Milton "Hilly" Flitcraft (August 21, 1923 – April 2, 2003) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Flitcraft played for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1942 season. In 3 career games, he had a 0–0 record with an 8.10 ERA. He batted and threw left-handed.
| Hilly Flitcraft | |
|---|---|
| Pitcher | |
| Born: August 21, 1923 Woodstown, New Jersey | |
| Died: April 2, 2003 (aged 79) Boulder, Colorado | |
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |
| MLB debut | |
| August 31, 1942, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| September 17, 1942, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Win–loss record | 0–0 |
| Earned run average | 8.10 |
| Strikeouts | 1 |
| Games played | 3 |
| Teams | |
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Following the 1942 season, Flitcraft voluntarily retired from baseball in order to tend to the family dairy farm during World War II.[1]
Flitcraft was born in Woodstown, New Jersey, and died in Boulder, Colorado.[1]
Hildreth Milton Flitcraft is referenced in Allen Woods' 2017 Formulas of the Moral Law as a seemingly random or stand-in name. The reference is found in footnote 7, and is used within the context of a maxim: “Make a false promise on a Tuesday to a person named Hildreth Milton Flitcraft”.[2]
References
- Hilly Flitcraft at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Jim Sweetman, Retrieved July 5, 2019.
- Wood, Allen (2017). Formulas of the Moral Law. Indiana: Cambridge University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-108-41317-6.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
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