Word: mickey
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Injuries have played a part, of course. Pitcher Whitey Ford underwent surgery last month for a blocked artery in his shoulder. Shortstop Ruben Amaro tore his knee ligaments in the first week of the season. Mickey Mantle has missed 42 games with assorted aches and pains, and Roger Maris has been playing for three months with a torn leg muscle so painful that he cannot run out the infield grounders he now hits so consistently. Still, Yankee teams have been hard hit before: the 1949 club, for example, survived a succession of 71 separate injuries and won a pennant...
...JEAN ARTHUR SHOW (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). For a switch on The Defenders, Lawyers Patricia (Jean Arthur) and Paul (Ron Harper) Marshall play mother-and-son legal eagles. Mickey Rooney is their first client...
...first hole she skulled a fairway wood into the rough, then three-putted for a double bogey. But that was the end of the jitters. Taking her deep breaths like Mickey told her to, she rolled in a 20-ft. birdie putt on the fourth hole, canned a 25-ft. putt for another on the seventh, chipped in from 15 ft. for still another on the 14th, and drilled a perfect 3-iron to within 18 in. of the cup to set up a fourth birdie on the 16th. She sank a seven-foot putt on the 17th...
Over the last 16 years, Mickey Mantle has come a long way from Commerce, Okla. This season it looked as though he had all but stopped. The once grand .365 of 1957 has withered to .281, and Mantle, his aching legs taped from ankle to thigh, has seemed merely a $100,000 ghost of a great, while the once fearsome New York Yankees flounder in eighth place, 19½ games behind the leading Baltimore Orioles...
...feeling better all the time," said Mickey. That was just before he tried too hard, pulled a leg muscle, and had to go back to the dugout for a week...