Hilly Flitcraft
Pitcher
Born: (1923-08-21)August 21, 1923
Woodstown, New Jersey
Died: April 2, 2003(2003-04-02) (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 record0–0
Earned run average8.10
Strikeouts1
Games played3
Teams

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.[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

  1. 1 2 Hilly Flitcraft at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Jim Sweetman, Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  2. Wood, Allen (2017). Formulas of the Moral Law. Indiana: Cambridge University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-108-41317-6.


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