Loek van Mil
Dutch baseball player
Died when: 34 years 316 days (418 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Ludovicus Jacobus Maria "Loek" van Mil ([luːk vɑn mɪl]; 15 September 1984 – 28 July 2019) was a Dutch professional baseball pitcher.
At the height of 7 feet 1 inch (2.16 m), he was and still is the tallest player in the history of professional baseball.
He played for Curaçao Neptunus of the Honkbal Hoofdklasse and for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
On the Netherlands national baseball team he served as the team's closer in the 2013 World Baseball Classic and the 2015 Premier 12 and appeared in the 2007 Baseball World Cup.
He missed the 2008 Summer Olympics due to injury.
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