Mickey Grasso: The Catcher Was a POW
He loved kids and despised umpires. Since he was a genuinely nice guy, youngsters followed him like the Pied Piper Grasso’s vendetta against the men in blue was attributed to his resentment of authority, courtesy of vicious beatings inflicted by World War II POW guards. Newton Michael Grasso was born on May 10, 1920, in Newark, […]