Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Game. What started as a southpaw pitching duel between Brooklyn's Preacher Roe and the Yankee's Eddie Lopat blew up in a Yankee victory in the eighth, when Mickey Mantle slammed a two-run homer to break a 2-2 tie. The Dodgers outhit the Yanks nine hits to five, but then left ten men stranded on the bases. Score: Yankees, 4; Dodgers...
...Feeling. While Hughes and Johnson talked on and on-for 55 minutes minutes-the FBI agents traced the call to a phone booth in the mezzanine of Baltimore's Town Theater, where Mickey Spillane's blood and thunder I, the Jury was playing. The FBI rounded up a small task force of its agents, including Agent John Brady Murphy, 35, who had already started home to his wife and three children when he got orders to come back to his office. At the theater, four agents, led by Murphy, cautiously made their way up the stairs...
...Mickey Mantle, the New York Yankees' 21-year-old glamour boy, powered a 375-foot home run with Hank Baner on base in the eighth inning yesterday for a second straight Yankee victory over Brooklyn, 4-2, before 66,786 World Series fans...
...tight spot with three blistering fast balls. Though Yankee hitters are less fearsome than the Dodgers, four regulars are over .300. Catcher Yogi Berra, Outfielders Hank Bauer and Gene Woodling, Pinchhitter Johnny Mize can all deliver the big hit with men on bases. And in Mickey Mantle (.297) the Yankees have a bubblegum-popping youngster who runs like a scared whippet and can slam a ball out of any ball park in the country...
Says Ebensten: "The tattooist is almost a fairy-tale figure, hovering in his gloomy, weirdly decorated and mysterious little shop like some grotesque but bewitching hermit ..." But since World War I, tattooing has steadily declined. It is too conservative, for one thing, holding to such dull, outmoded motifs as Mickey Mouse, foul anchors, and bathing belles of yesteryear. Ebensten laments: "No atom bomb explodes on any lusty chest...