biography
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Cochrane, Mickey
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popular name of Gordon Stanley Cochrane
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–62)
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| biography:
| Baseball player, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA. As a high-spirited catcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1925–33) he helped them to three pennants and two world championships in 1929–31. With the Detroit Tigers as the manager and catcher (1934–7), ‘Black Mike’ helped them to two pennants and one world championship. Early in the 1937 season, he was injured at the plate; his skull fractured in three places, he remained unconscious and close to death for 10 days, but gradually recovered. He never played again but remained as manager until August 1938. |
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