Editing Mickey Cochrane (section)

==Early life==
Cochrane was born in [[Bridgewater, Massachusetts]]. His father, John Cochrane, had immigrated from [[Omagh]], [[County Tyrone]] in what is now [[Northern Ireland]] and his mother, Sadie Campbell, had come from [[Prince Edward Island]], Canada, whence her family had immigrated from [[Scotland]].<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Mickey Cochrane"/> He was also known as "Black Mike" because of his fiery, competitive nature.<ref name="The Baseball Biography Project: Mickey Cochrane"/><ref name="Mickey Cochrane Obituary at Baseball Almanac"/> Cochrane was educated at [[Boston University]], where he played five sports, excelling at football and basketball.<ref name="The Detroit Tigers Encyclopedia Honoring a Detroit Legend">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UJVas2JMjLUC&q=mickey+cochrane&pg=PA52 |title=''The Detroit Tigers Encyclopedia, Honoring a Detroit Legend'', by Jim Hawkins, Dan Ewald, George Van Dusen, Sports Publishing LLC, 2002, ISBN 1-58261-222-6, ISBN 978-1-58261-222-5 |access-date=2010-11-23|isbn=9781582612225|year=2003|last1=Hawkins |first1=Jim |last2=Ewald |first2=Dan |last3=Dusen |first3=George Van |publisher=Sports Publishing LLC }}</ref> Although Cochrane considered himself a better football player than baseball player, professional football was not as established as Major League Baseball at the time, so he signed with the [[Portland Beavers]] of the [[Pacific Coast League]] in {{mlby|1924}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=cochra001gor |title=Mickey Cochrane minor league statistics |website=Baseball-Reference.com |access-date=2010-11-23}}</ref>