1. Milton Leon "Mickey" Herskowitz was born on April 4,1933 and is an American journalist and biographer.
16 Facts About Mickey Herskowitz
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Mickey Herskowitz has written more than 50 books and has published autobiographies with several athletes.
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Mickey Herskowitz was a sportswriter and columnist for the Houston Post and the Houston Chronicle, and a former ghost writer for George W Bush.
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Mickey Herskowitz was born to Herbert S and Sarah Rheva Herskowitz.
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Mickey Herskowitz's mother was born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1904, but who later lived in Matamoras, Mexico before relocating to Texas.
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Mickey Herskowitz had an older sister named Phyllis Florence Herskowitz.
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Mickey Herskowitz has authored over 50 books, many of them jointly written autobiographies of famous Americans in politics, sports and media, and others ghostwritten autobiographies of celebrities in similar fields.
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Mickey Herskowitz was given unprecedented access to Bush and met him around 20 times to discuss the project.
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Work on the autobiography began in May 1999, and within two months Mickey Herskowitz had completed all chapters, and submitted ten.
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Mickey Herskowitz was replaced after Bush's handlers decided that the candidate's views and life experiences were not being cast in a sufficiently positive light.
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Mickey Herskowitz told me, '[My father] could have done anything [during the Gulf War].
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In 1972, Mickey Herskowitz covered the tragedy at the Munich Olympics.
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Mickey Herskowitz was inducted into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997, and was the 3rd annual recipient of the Jimmy Wynn "Toy Cannon Award" in 2006, for community service.
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Mickey Herskowitz was known for his occasional series "Letters from Lefty" about a mythical southpaw pitcher for the lowly Houston Colt.
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Mickey Herskowitz was hapless, only getting through an inning by the miraculous fielding plays of his team or simply pure luck.
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Mickey Herskowitz covered the first game in 1962 played by the Colt.