Mickey Grasso’s Wartime Journal

August 20, 2010 by Gary Bedingfield · Leave a Comment

A 150-page journal that was kept by big leaguer catcher Mickey Grasso while he was a prisoner of the Germans in World War II, has just been discovered in Miami. Now the owner wants to reunite the book with Mickey’s surviving family. On February 14, 1943, Mickey Grasso, a young catcher with the Interstate Leagueâ€™s […]

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