Noel Hynd A Brooklyn Guy: Otto Miller: The Greatest Brooklyn Dodger You

NOMINEE FOR THE SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN BASEBALL RESEARCH (SABR) 2026 RON GABRIEL AWARD, HONORING THE BEST NEW RESEARCH ON THE BROOKLYN DODGERS! Otto "Moonie" Miller was the greatest Brooklyn Dodger whom most fans have never heard of. Till now. Otto Miller played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for more than nine hundred games over thirteen seasons from 1910 through 1922. He was the starting catcher the day Ebbets Field opened on a freezing day in 1913. He was on the field in September of 1957 and stood next to Roy Campanella, the Dodgers other great catcher in Brooklyn, at the ceremony when the park closed forever to National League baseball in 1957. He was there again literally with tears in his eyes when the park met the wreckers ball in 1960.Otto Miller was a teammate of Casey Stengel and later coached the Dodgers when Casey managed the team. Casey was the best man at Ottos Brooklyn wedding just before World War One. Miller married a girl from Flatbush, of course. Otto played with Hall of Famers Zack Wheat and Jake Daubert and was the battery mate of Hall of Fame pitchers Rube Marquard and Burleigh Grimes. He was a starting catcher when the Brooklyn team played in its first two World Series in 1916 and 1920. In the second game of the 1916 Series, one of the greatest World Series games ever played, "Moonie" batted against Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox and singled. A quiet, strong, likable man, Miller spent his life as a witness to and participant in baseball history and its... | Noel Hynd A Brooklyn Guy: Otto Miller: The Greatest Brooklyn Dodger You