Word: mickey
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...baseball players get away with talking to their manager like that. But when the player is Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra will take all the lip he hands out. At 32 Mantle is at least a couple of steps slower than when he broke into the American League 13 seasons ago. He has a chronically weak right shoulder and his knees are crosshatched with scars from cartilage operations-the most recent of them last winter. He runs as if he were on stilts, and he winces every time he swings a bat. But Mickey Mantle is still the most valuable player...
Last week the Yankees were trailing the American League-leading Baltimore Orioles by only .006 points, and the reason, in a word, was Mantle. Mickey's .323 batting average was the second best in the league. He had hit one out of every five Yankee home runs so far this year (with 19), led the team in R.B.I.s (61) and, naturally, in walks (59). In two crucial games last week, he demonstrated why, in case anybody had forgotten, the Yankees pay him $100,000 a year. Against the Orioles, Mickey beat out an infield hit, moved to second when...
...Mantle's next victim. In the Yankee fifth, with two on, two out, and the Senators leading 3-1, Mantle stepped up to the plate. First base was open, and Koch was in no mood to take unnecessary chances. His first three pitches were off the plate, and Mickey took them all. "You can't let Mantle beat you," Koch said. "He's the wheel. Even with a 3-0 count on Mickey, I didn't want to let him beat me." So Koch threw another ball, low and inside. Only Mantle did not take this...
...California's Mickey Wright, 29: the United States women's open golf title for a fourth time, at the San Diego Country Club. Forced into a playoff round with Ruth Jessen, Mighty Mickey boomed the ball around the 6,400-yd. course for a man-sized, three-under-par 70 and her seventh victory in twelve tournaments this year. Said her opponent: "I hate to lose, but there is some consolation in losing to the greatest woman golfer in the world...
...Mickey Wright, 29: the Waldemar Open, her sixth victory in eleven tournaments; at Brookville, L.I. Tied for the lead after 36 holes. Mickey fired a last-round 71, two under par, collected $1,350 (bringing her season's winnings to $13,130) and talked wistfully about joining the men's pro tour. "I could wear a hood or some disguise so they wouldn't recognize me," she said. > Dan Gurney, 33: the Grand Prix de France, averaging 108.7 m.p.h. in his green, Climax-powered Brabham, to beat Britain's Graham Hill by 41 sec.; at Rouen...