Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cincinnati 2, Brooklyn...
Mickey Owen is one of baseball's better catchers, but when he makes an error it is a beaut. The third strike he dropped at Ebbets Field in 1941 cost Brooklyn a World Series game. Last week Mickey decided that joining the Mexican League was his big error for 1946. He recrossed the Rio Grande so suddenly that his wife left most of her clothes behind...
...fine contract with Mexico's Pasquel brothers. The Pasquels promptly hollered that he owed them $26,000. Said Mickey: "I don't owe them nothing." Presumably, under Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler's rules, Mickey Owen was banned from U.S. organized ball for five years. But Brooklyn Dodger President Branch Rickey, badly in need of a catcher for his team's stretch drive, was ready to forgive & forget. He argued that Mickey's case was different, since he went straight from the Navy to Mexico, without signing a 1946 Dodger contract. Other ballplayers (the loudest...
...Britain-born Brooklyn and Broadway character, Murray Garsson had been arrested half a dozen times for crimes ranging from plain robbery to evasion of corporation laws. His only conviction was for speeding (sentence suspended). He had been a pal of New York City's gang kingpins Dutch Schultz and Owney Madden, was suspected of being their partner in illicit breweries. The FBI had Garsson down as suspect of arranging protection for big-time bootleggers...
...Brooklyn 7, Boston...