His name is on the McNeese State baseball stadium, Joe Miller Ballpark.

“The Jeaux,” as it’s affectionately known.

The McNeese softball team  plays on Joe Miller Field at Cowgirl Diamond.

There’s also the baseball field at Brentwood Park and a pool at Foreman-Reynaud Community Center.

The name seems to be almost everywhere.

But Joe Miller’s fingerprints are all over just about everything in Southwest Louisiana related to a bat and ball, the tools of the sport that he spent his life — actually, he was something of a late convert to baseball. So he only spent half of his life coaching, supporting and promoting baseball and softball.

Joe Miller Jr. said Joe Sr. and Mary Joyce had five daughters before he came along to break the streak.

“All his time and money went into the Camp Fire Girls before two sons came along,” Joe Junior said.

“Then he spent the next 42 years coaching Little League.”

There was much more to him than that — mostly involving the youth of Lake Charles.

But whether it was turning South Lake Charles Little League into a model of success and service or, well into his 90s, showing up each week to read to students at Combre Elementary School, it was “all about the kids.”

“Everybody played,” Joe Junior said of his dad’s coaching style. “Everybody got a chance regardless of ability.”

Miller did work for a living.

The company he founded with his father and brother, F. Miller & Sons Construction, built much of the Lake Charles’ skyline as well as Memorial Hospital and the Interstate 210 Bridge.

Further east, the company built the Atchafalaya Basin Causeway, perhaps to ease the trek to another of his passions, LSU athletics.

“But that was just to support his baseball habit,” Joe Junior laughed of the successful company.

“When he’d get off work he’d go straight to baseball practice. It drove his wife crazy.”

His association with McNeese also came fairly late — but with lasting results.

When current Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco was named the Cowboys’ head coach in 2000, he asked around town as to who he needed to talk to.

“They’d say, ‘Go see Joe Miller.’ ”

Next thing you knew, again, Miller dove in head first. And the Cowboys had their biggest backer.

“Joe Miller was an icon,” McNeese athletic director Heath Schroyer said. “The amount of lives he impacted is unimaginable. His love for McNeese athletics was unmatched.”

By the time Justin Hill took over the program in 2014, he knew who talk to. Hill desperately wanted an upgrade to the rusting ballpark and out-of-date team facilities.

He got $750,000 in cash and a lot more in energy from Miller.

It seemed natural to afix the Miller name to the vastly upgraded facilities.

“At first my dad wanted to pass on that,” Joe Junior said. “He wanted them to wait until after he died to name it after him.

“But as he got a little older he came around. And he decided he liked his name in the spotlight.

“He liked it so much that he went to (McNeese softball coach) James Landreneau to talk about upgrading the softball park.”

Hence, “Joe Miller Field at Cowgirl Diamond.”

And more.

“James told him to drop by whenever he wanted, and he took him at his word,” Joe Junior laughed. “He’d be there every day sitting in the dugout. The girls loved him.”

Seems like the whole city did.