Mike Balas
Mitchell Francis "Mike" Balas was a Major League Baseball pitcher who appeared in one game in with the Boston Bees in 1938.
Balas entered professional baseball in 1929 playing for the Brokton Shoemakers of the New England League. After moving around the minors for the next 9 years, he played in his only MLB game on April 27, 1938. In that game, he pitched 1 innings facing 8 batters, surrendering 3 runs, walking and striking out none. Following the game he returned to the minors and continued there until 1940. He also was a minor league manager from 1945–48.
Balas was a Jehovah's Witness and in 1942 was prosecuted as a conscientious objector to military service.
