The Legendary John "Mule" Miles...Passes at 90 Years Old in his Home...Rest in Peace
Ex-Negro League Baseball Player...John "Mule" Miles passed away at 90 years old in his home. In failing health over the past few months, gregarious former Negro Leagues baseball player John “Mule” Miles died at his home in San Antonio on Friday morning. He was 90. “I wanted to inform you that my father, John Miles, Jr., passed away quietly at home this morning of heart complications,” his son, Ralph Miles, wrote in an email. “We will miss (the) stories of the game he loved, baseball.” A 1940s-era ball player with the Chicago American Giants , Miles didn't get any recognition for his career until decades later, when some of the league's former athletes started receiving invitations to major league games and other public functions. Miles relished the opportunity to renew acquaintances and tell stories. “He got energy from that,” Ralph Miles said in a telephone interview. “It lifted him. I'd travel with him to some of those things. I'd see h