John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player (died 2013)

John Miles (baseball)

Tuskegee airman and pro baseball player (1922–2013)

John "Mule" Miles was an American professional baseball player who played with the Chicago American Giants of the Negro leagues from 1946 to 1949. Nicknamed "the Mule" by his manager Candy Jim Taylor after hitting two home runs in one ball game. Taylor commented that Miles "hit…