:Hilly Flitcraft

{{short description|American baseball player (1923-2003)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Hilly Flitcraft

|image=Hilly Flitcraft.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date|1923|8|21}}

|birth_place=Woodstown, New Jersey

|death_date={{death date and age|2003|4|2|1923|8|21}}

|death_place=Boulder, Colorado

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=August 31

|debutyear=1942

|debutteam=Philadelphia Phillies

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 17

|finalyear=1942

|finalteam=Philadelphia Phillies

|statleague = MLB

|stat4label=Games played

|stat4value=3

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=8.10

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=1

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=0–0

|teams =

• Philadelphia Phillies ({{baseball year|1942}})

}}

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.

Following the 1942 season, Flitcraft voluntarily retired from baseball in order to tend to the family dairy farm during World War II.{{Sabrbio|7598afb1|Hilly Flitcraft|Jim Sweetman|July 5, 2019}} He, however, took himself off the retirement list in 1945 and took part in training among farm team members due to the war travel restrictions.{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Hilly Flitcraft – Society for American Baseball Research |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/hilly-flitcraft/ |access-date=2024-03-13 |language=en-US}} While playing for Wilmington, the 1945 season was his best as a pro baller as he was selected in the all-star team.

Flitcraft was born in Woodstown, New Jersey, and died in Boulder, Colorado.

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”.{{Cite book|last=Wood|first=Allen|title=Formulas of the Moral Law|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-1-108-41317-6|location=Indiana|pages=37|language=English}}