Mickey Grasso

Mickey Grasso (1920-1975) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who batted and threw right-handed. A veteran of World War II who spent more than two years as a prisoner of war in Germany, he played all or parts of seven major league seasons in 322 games for the New York Giants (1946 and 1955), the Washington Senators (1950-1953), and the Cleveland Indians (1954). He batted a career-high .287 in 1950 and served as the Senators' regular catcher in 1952. With the 1954 Indians he was behind the plate in the tenth inning of World Series Game One when Dusty Rhodes hit a walk-off home run.