 On March 23, 1955, Milt had a career-threatening injury when he broke his left elbow in a Spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals after he had already won the starting role at shortstop for the season.He was expected to return after six weeks, but ended up playing in only six games for the entire season.By the time Bolling got a clean bill of health, he had lost his starting job to Don Buddin for the 1956 season.