Milton "Mickey" Rutner (March 18, 1919 – October 17, 2007) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played briefly with the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1947 season. Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 190 lb., Rutner batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Hempstead, New York, and was Jewish. He attended James Monroe High School, and St. John's University in Brooklyn, New York. Rutner died in Georgetown, Texas at age 88. He is the basis for the main character, Mike Kutner, in the Eliot Asinof novel, Man On Spikes.