Ivan Miller (journalist)

James Ivan Miller (December 31, 1898 – June 2, 1967) was a Canadian journalist and sportscaster. He worked 45 years for The Hamilton Spectator as a columnist, sports editor, and sports director, where he regularly covered the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Canadian football. As a radio sportscaster on CKOC, he gave play-by-play coverage of golf and ice hockey. As the founding president of the Ontario Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, he organized annual sports celebrities dinners to benefit the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. His final project was a book on the history of sports in Hamilton. He was posthumously inducted into the media section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, and the builder category of the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame.

Before journalism, Miller played amateur baseball as a pitcher and won the 1920 Ontario Baseball Association championship. Hoping to turn professional with the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, an injury pitching for the Portsmouth Truckers in the Virginia League prevented his minor league progress after one season. He remained active in organizing sports in Hamilton, including golf and curling, was a committee member for the 1930 British Empire Games, and was the Canadian Football Hall of Fame's inaugural curator.