Day By Day© by Chris Muir.Thursday, October 21, 2004
Chuck Hiller, who hit the National League's first grand slam in the World Series, died Wednesday. He was 70.
Hiller worked in the New York Mets organization for the past 24 seasons as a major league coach and a minor league manager and adviser. He was the adviser to the minor league director this past season.
The former second baseman died after a lengthy illness, the Mets announced.
Hiller played for four teams in eight seasons and batted .243 with 20 home runs and 152 RBIs. His grand slam in Game 4 of the 1962 World Series off New York Yankees pitcher Marshall Bridges snapped a seventh-inning tie and helped the San Francisco Giants to a 7-3 victory.
Hiller served as a coach with Texas, Kansas City, St. Louis - including the Cardinals' world championship season of 1982 - and San Francisco.
With the Mets, Hiller was the third-base coach in 1990 and Darryl Strawberry's first minor league manager a decade earlier.
Hiller worked in the New York Mets organization for the past 24 seasons as a major league coach and a minor league manager and adviser. He was the adviser to the minor league director this past season.
The former second baseman died after a lengthy illness, the Mets announced.
Hiller played for four teams in eight seasons and batted .243 with 20 home runs and 152 RBIs. His grand slam in Game 4 of the 1962 World Series off New York Yankees pitcher Marshall Bridges snapped a seventh-inning tie and helped the San Francisco Giants to a 7-3 victory.
Hiller served as a coach with Texas, Kansas City, St. Louis - including the Cardinals' world championship season of 1982 - and San Francisco.
With the Mets, Hiller was the third-base coach in 1990 and Darryl Strawberry's first minor league manager a decade earlier.
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