Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in a while Benny (whose most recent alias was Gamson) had to pay a $5 fine for shooting craps, but nothing ever came of his six arrests for suspicion of robbery. He had a little routine trouble with a tough local competitor named Mickey Cohen. One night he hammered Mickey's skull with a piece of lead pipe, but the quarrel never got really serious...
...Jackson Day dinner in Los Angeles last spring, at which the Committee was set to shower its kisses on Henry Wallace, its favorite son, Henry was preceded on the speaker's program by Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Jerry Colonna, Burns & Allen, Edward G. Robinson, George Jessel, Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Frank Sinatra and Bette Davis. So, by the time hapless Henry got up to talk...
...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...
Back in the U.S., he cut loose with a Jan Valtin horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell...
...Mickey went over the hill and abandoned his 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...