# Ray Miner

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{{short description|American baseball player (1897-1963)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Ray Miner
|bats=Right
|throws=Left
|birth_date=April 4, 1897
|birth_place=[Glen Falls, New York](/source/Glen_Falls%2C_New_York)
|death_date=September 15, 1963
|death_place=[Glen Ridge, New York](/source/Glen_Ridge%2C_New_York)
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=September 15
|debutyear=1921
|debutteam=Philadelphia Athletics
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 15
|finalyear=1921
|finalteam=Philadelphia Athletics
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[Win–loss record](/source/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching))
|stat1value=0–0
|stat2label=[Earned run average](/source/Earned_run_average)
|stat2value=36.00
|stat3label=[Strikeout](/source/Strikeout)s
|stat3value=0
|teams=
* [Philadelphia Athletics](/source/Philadelphia_Athletics) ({{mlby|1921}})}}
'''Raymond Theodore Miner''' (April 4, 1897 – September 15, 1963) was an American [Major League Baseball](/source/Major_League_Baseball) [pitcher](/source/pitcher). He played for the [Philadelphia Athletics](/source/Philadelphia_Athletics) during the {{Baseball year|1921}} season.

In 1922, Miner was pitching in the [Blue Grass League](/source/Blue_Grass_League) when a foul ball was caught by a spectator who threw it accurately back to him from her seat. Miner was introduced to the fan, Marie Felice Welsh, and they married in February 1923.<ref>{{cite news |title=Foul Is Cupid's Dart |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lexington-herald-foul-is-cupids-dar/136624895/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=[The Lexington Herald](/source/The_Lexington_Herald) |date=22 February 1923 |pages=8}}</ref>

In 1924, Miner was [acquitted](/source/acquitted) of murder after a trial in Kentucky. Miner was charged as an accomplice because he had been with a man the day he shot and killed another man on the street.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ray Miner Acquitted |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lexington-herald-ray-miner-acquitted/136624499/ |access-date=11 December 2023 |work=[The Lexington Herald](/source/The_Lexington_Herald) |date=20 September 1924 |pages=3}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Baseballstats |mlb= |espn= |br=m/minerra01 |fangraphs= |cube= |brm=miner-001ray}}

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Category:Major League Baseball pitchers
Category:Philadelphia Athletics players
Category:Baseball players from Glens Falls, New York
Category:1897 births
Category:1963 deaths
Category:Paris Bourbons players
Category:American people acquitted of murder
Category:20th-century American sportsmen

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