Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinch-Hitter Eddie Robinson came in for Silvera and flied out. Mickey Mantle, hitless all day, slammed a screamer off Dropo's foot and raced all the way to second. It seemed a wasted effort. Joe Collins flied out, and Hank Bauer walloped a long fly to left. Minnie Minoso had a bead on the ball, got both hands on it-and suddenly it was bouncing behind him for another unbelievable error. Mantle was home, and the Yankees were still alive...
...World Series-when Martin's last stint produced a heroic .500 batting average, a sixth-game, ninth-inning single that gave the Yankees the crown. Against the Washington Senators Martin sparked his team with two crackling hits. Whitey Ford pitched a brilliant one-hitter, Mickey Mantle slammed out his 36th homer, drove in three runs, winning the game 4-2. In the dizzy seesaw American League race with Chicago (ahead by half a game) and Cleveland (half a game out), it was good, pennant-grabbing, Yankee ball...
...American League pennant race showed no signs of slowing down. With homers by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees kept a precarious hold on first place, took the initial game of a double-header with Chicago, 6-1. But the second-place White Sox bounced back, 3-2, thanks to Third Baseman Bob Kennedy's first inning, three-run homer. The split held the Yankee's lead to half a game. Poor pitching cost the Cleveland Indians a double-header with the seventh-place Senators (8-2, 13-4), dropped them from a first-place...
...strong bid for viewers' eyes, brings on The Mickey Mouse Club, a new companion piece to Disneyland, combining all the famed cartoon characters with live entertainment. Disneyland itself will be back with a new series about Davy Crockett and a science-fiction film called Man in Space. Wyatt Earp, billed as the first adult Western TV series, is aimed at achieving the quality of such films as High Noon and Shane. Warner Bros. Presents is an hour-long filmed show that will alternate adventure, romance and Western drama. M-G-M Parade will present shorts and film clips from...
...Yankee fan is a complacent, ignorant fat cat. [He has] been fed on victory and on great dull stars such as Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, and even these men they do not appreciate...