Baseball History: Death of Mickey McDermott

August 7, 2003 - Maurice Joseph "Mickey" McDermott Jr. was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. In 1991, after getting into a car wreck and being sentenced to 60 days in jail for numerous DWI's, McDermott became sober. Five years later, his wife, Betty, died of breast cancer. McDermott's health was not much better, as he went on to have a defibrillator and pacemaker surgically installed. He wrote a memoir of his playing (and non-playing) days called A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cooperstown, in which he blamed his health problems on his heavy drinking. McDermott lived long enough to see his book published. It was released in April 2003, and he died in Phoenix, from congestive heart failure and colon cancer.

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