Mike Hegan, the scion of a Cleveland baseball family who played a dozen seasons elsewhere in the big leagues but returned to his hometown as a longtime broadcaster for the Indians, died on Wednesday in Hilton Head, S.C. He was 71.

The Indians announced his death on Twitter. The Associated Press reported that the cause was a heart problem.

From 1964 to 1977, Hegan had two stints with the Yankees and two with the Milwaukee Brewers. He also played for the Seattle Pilots in 1969, their only year of existence before the franchise migrated to Milwaukee, and the Oakland Athletics.

A sometime outfielder (and, after 1972, a designated hitter), he was better known as a slick-fielding first baseman. From Sept. 24, 1970, when he was a Brewer, until June 3, 1973, by which time he was with Oakland, he played 178 games at first base without committing an error, at the time a major league record for the position. (Kevin Youkilis, whose streak of 238 consecutive errorless games at first for the Boston Red Sox ended in 2008, is now the record-holder.)