[1] Hiller batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 170 pounds (77 kg).
[2] After graduating from McHenry East High School in Johnsburg, Illinois, Hiller attended the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.
[7] In the second game, with the Giants trailing 3–2, he led off the eighth inning with a double, and came around to score the tying run on Willie Mays' single.
[11] On June 11, his second inning error on a Smoky Burgess ground ball opened the door for the Pittsburgh Pirates to score four runs.
[12] It was his seventh error of the season, and played into the decision to demote Hiller to the triple A Tacoma Giants in early July.
Hiller tore up the Pacific Coast League to the tune of a .324 batting average, five home runs and 32 RBIs to get a call back up to the majors in September.
Amalfitano's selection by the Houston Colt .45s in the 1962 Major League Baseball expansion draft led Giants brass to openly attempt to acquire a new second baseman before the 1962 season began.
Unsuccessful, Hiller became the 1962 Giants' de facto full-time second baseman despite a poor Spring training.
The Dodgers were swept, resulting in the teams ending their 162-game schedules with identical 101-61 records, and setting up a three game tie-breaker series.
It would turn out to be all the run support Jack Sanford needed, as he held the Yankees to three hits in a complete game shutout.
Jim Davenport walked to lead off the seventh, and the Giants put runners on second and third when Matty Alou doubled.
Yankees pitcher Marshall Bridges entered the game, and intentionally walked his first batter, Bob Nieman to load the bases for Harvey Kuenn.
He drove Bridges' fastball into the front row in the right field stands for the first grand slam in World Series play by a National Leaguer.
[22] Hiller was held hitless, and struck out in the ninth in Ralph Terry's game seven four hit gem that brought the Yankees their 20th World Series title.
[24] After going 2-for-5 with an RBI in the Giants' 9–2 opening day victory,[25] Hiller's 1963 season took a sharp downward turn.
On June 15, future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal and the Colt .45s' Dick Drott embarked on a classic pitchers' duel.
When All-Star second baseman Ron Hunt separated his shoulder early in the 1965 season, the New York Mets purchased Hiller from the Giants.
Upon Hunt's return, the Mets tried Hiller at third (he played one game at third with the Giants[35]), and he made his debut as an outfielder on August 14.
[37] Unfortunately, Hiller squandered his opportunity to become the Mets' starting second baseman in 1967 by batting .111 with two RBIs through the first month of the season.
Meanwhile, Jerry Buchek, acquired from the Cardinals at the end of Spring training for Eddie Bressoud and Danny Napoleon, played well enough to earn the starting job (.230 avg., 8 HR, 19 RBI).
Hiller then served under manager Herzog as an MLB coach with the Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals and Cardinals, and later spent brief terms in the post with the Giants and the Mets.
In between Hiller's major-league assignments, he served the Mets as a longtime infield instructor in their minor league system, and managed in the Cardinals' organization.