Everett Mills

{{Short description|American baseball player (1845–1908)}}

{{about||the cotton textile mill|The Everett Mills}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Everett Mills

|image=Everett Mills 1870.jpg

|position=First baseman

|birth_date={{Birth date|1845|1|20}}

|birth_place=Newark, New Jersey

|death_date={{death date and age|1908|6|22|1845|1|20}}

|death_place=Newark, New Jersey

|bats=Unknown

|throws=Unknown

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=May 5

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1871}}

|debutteam=Washington Olympics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=October 17

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1876}}

|finalteam=Hartford Dark Blues

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat2label=Hits

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat1value=.284

|stat2value=433

|stat3value=204

|teams=

;  National Association of Base Ball Players

: Newark Eurekas (1864–1867)

: Irvington of Irvington, NJ (1868)

: New York Mutuals (1868–1870)

;  League player

: Washington Olympics ({{Baseball year|1871}})

: Baltimore Canaries ({{Baseball year|1872}}–{{Baseball year|1873}})

: Hartford Dark Blues ({{Baseball year|1874}}–{{Baseball year|1876}})

;  League manager

: Baltimore Canaries ({{Baseball year|1872}})

}}

Everett Mills (January 20, 1845 – June 22, 1908) was an American Major League Baseball player from Newark, New Jersey. He played in all five seasons of the National Association ({{Baseball year|1871}}–{{Baseball year|1875}}), and one season in the National League ({{Baseball year|1876}}). He played every one of his games at first base save for one game in center field.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/millsev01.shtml Baseball-reference player page] In {{Baseball year|1872}}, he became player-manager for the final 17 games of the season while a member of the Baltimore Canaries. The team finished in second place, and he would never manage again.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/millsev01.shtml Baseball-reference manager page]

Everett died in his hometown of Newark at the age of 63, and was buried at Fairmount Cemetery.[http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmille105.htm Retrosheet]