Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from some secondary, late-season statistics, the American League pennant race is over. The Yankees are in. Yet even Yankee haters are still watching the ball games, for these days the Yanks supply their own competition. Every inning that he comes to bat, their broad-backed slugger, Mickey Charles Mantle, tangles with one of baseball's fanciest records: the massive total of 60 home runs hit by the Yankees' Babe Ruth during the 1927 season...
...argument will live even if Mickey fails. And even if the 60-homer mark is passed, Ruth will reign supreme. His name still fills the record books. For all his switch-hitting talents, Mickey will never pitch 29⅔ consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play. He will have a tough time even approaching the Babe's lifetime total of 714 homers. It will be many a long summer before he bats in 2,209 runs. As long as he remains a Yankee, Mantle will be playing his home games in the House That Ruth Built...
...Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TIME, April...
...last night, however, there was no evidence that many Summer School students were joining the movement to reimburse Ted for the $5000 he was fined on Tuesday. The hubbub has arisen, of course, from Williams' action in Tuesday's game against the Yankees, when, roundly booed after dropping Mickey Mantle's fly ball, Ted returned the salute to the stands with an emphatic allowance for numerical inferiority. In other words, he spat...
...Bold and the Brave. A war film with ideas that hit as hard as bullets; with Wendell Corey, Don Taylor, Mickey Rooney (TIME. April...