John Miller did not waste his life dwelling on what could have been, though a bum shoulder kept his baseball dreams from coming to full fruition.
The Baltimore native used his sharp slider to win a dozen games for the Orioles and earned a World Series ring as a part-time starter on the 1966 team. After shoulder woes robbed him of his fastball, he found a different way to serve his hometown as a Baltimore County firefighter for almost three decades.
“He was a super-humble guy,” said his son, John E. Miller III of Marriottsville.