Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HIGHLIGHTS OF RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Top acts, hosted by Arthur Godfrey with his good old horse Goldie. Circus stars include Animal Trainer Gunther Gebel-Wil-liams, the Four Brizios Clown Act, Rogana, the Queen of Balance, the Mickey Antalek Chimps and the Lindstroms, high-wire unicyclists...
They ranged from the line about Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch to the unkindest cut of all - that he was the only Greek since Achilles to make a heel a campaign issue...
...looked like a refugee from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. Sporting a straw hat, brown shoes, freckles, and $4 straw suitcase, he walked out of Commerce, Okla., and into the pin-striped uniform of the New York Yankees. Now, 18 seasons and 2,401 games later, Mickey Mantle put on a $155 pair of black alligator shoes, slipped into a $150 plaid sport jacket, and announced that he was retiring from baseball...
...during his first year in the major leagues; while chasing a fly ball in the second game of the 1951 World Series, he slipped and tore the ligaments in his right knee. This was the first of a plague of injuries that slowly but decisively broke him down. But Mickey did not break easy. Bull-necked and broad-backed, he leaned his 195 Ibs. into high, hard fastballs and hit drives that were things of wonder. At first, when he was a rookie training in Phoenix, Ariz., no one believed it. The thin atmosphere, they said, made the ball carry...
Mantle will go to Florida no more-at least not to play baseball. He plans to travel around the country tending to his string of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin' restaurants. The desire to play will undoubtedly always be there but, as he said last week, "I no longer can deliver what the fans expect...