{{Short description|American baseball player (1936–2011)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name=Don Miles |image=Don Miles.jpg |position=Outfielder |birth_date={{Birth date|1936|3|13}} |birth_place=Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |death_date={{Death date and age|2011|4|26|1936|3|13}} |death_place=Houston, Texas, U.S. |bats=Left |throws=Left |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=September 9 |debutyear=1958 |debutteam=Los Angeles Dodgers |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=September 20 |finalyear=1958 |finalteam=Los Angeles Dodgers |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.182 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=0 |stat3label=Runs scored |stat3value=2 |teams= *Los Angeles Dodgers (1958) }} '''Donald Ray Miles ''' (March 13, 1936 – April 26, 2011) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played in eight games for the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 1958 season.
Miles was a four-sport star in football, basketball, baseball, and track at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis from 1950-54. He attended college at Indiana Central (today the University of Indianapolis) where he continued to play the same four sports as a freshman in 1954-55, starring as fullback on the football team as well as in the outfield in baseball.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/2540257/?terms=%22don%20miles%22%20baseball&match=1 | work=The Kokomo Tribune | title=Hoosier Power Hitter Also In Dodger Plans | date=April 17, 1956 }}</ref> Miles returned for his sophomore year and played football in the fall of 1955,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/311320808/?terms=%22don%20miles%22%20baseball&match=1 | work=The Indianapolis News | title=Hounds Like New Coach And Feeling Is Mutual | date=September 6, 1955 }}</ref> then quit school mid-year to sign with the Dodgers.
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