These days, Ben Miller talks higher education issues and multi-million-dollar research with Washington policy-makers as a lobbyist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But as a kid growing up in upstate New York near Cooperstown, Miller dreamed of a career as second baseman for the Mets and was the first in his family to attend college, he recalls. But when, in his junior year at tiny Union College in Schenectady, he landed an internship with U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, it set a course for his professional life.