Hildreth Milton "Hilly" Flitcraft (August 21, 1923 – April 2, 2003) was a
Major League Baseball
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pitcher
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. Flitcraft played for the
Philadelphia Phillies
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in the 1942 season. In 3 career games, he had a 0–0 record with an 8.10 ERA. He batted and threw left-handed.
Following the 1942 season, Flitcraft voluntarily retired from baseball in order to tend to the family dairy farm during
World War II
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.
Flitcraft was born in
Woodstown, New Jersey
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Hildreth Milton Flitcraft is referenced in Allen Woods' 2017 ''Formulas of the Moral Law'' as a seemingly random or stand-in name. The reference is found in footnote 7, and is used within the context of a
maxim
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*Maxim ...
: “Make a false promise on a Tuesday to a person named Hildreth Milton Flitcraft”.