Major League Baseball Player. For seventeen seasons (1957 to 1973), he was a pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs. Born Miltiades Stergios Papastergious, he attended Cooley High School in Detroit, where he made his initial impact on the baseball diamond. Scouted by Hall of Fame pitcher Hal Newhouser, Pappas was signed by Baltimore as an amateur free agent in 1957. He marked his Major League debut, at the age of eighteen, on August 10, 1957 and pitched in four games with the Orioles during that season. Over the next decade, he proceeded to record double-digit win seasons consecutively. During his years with Baltimore, he achieved all star status twice (1962 and 1965). He was included in a deal which sent him to Cincinnati in exchange for slugger Frank Robinson to the Orioles. Robinson would go on to help the Orioles win two world championships and two additional pennants. While with the Cubs, he produced back-to-back seventeen win seasons (1971 and 1972) and made history, when he tossed a no-hit game against the San Diego Padres on September 2, 1972. The game was not without controversy, as Pappas believed the one walk he issued was actually a strike out which would have given him a perfect game. A visibly upset Pappas exchanged words with home plate umpire Bruce Froemming after the base-on-balls which happened with two outs in the top of the 9th inning. He compiled a 209 win, 164 loss record with a 3.40 lifetime ERA. In addition to pitching, Pappas displayed power at the plate, as he belted twenty career home runs as a batter. After retiring as a player, he served as a collegiate baseball coach. He suffered a personal tragedy, when his wife Carole disappeared after going out for a drive outside of Chicago in 1982 and was found dead five years later in a pond. Pappas co-authored his autobiography "Bringing Heat" in 1998.