Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Mickey Mantle returned to his home in Dallas a month ago to recuperate from a fractured foot injury, the big question in the American League was whether or not the Baltimore Orioles could fly high and fast enough to escape with the pennant before the hobbled Yankees recovered. They didn...
...words for a woman. But at 5 ft. 9 in. and 145 lbs., Mary Kathryn Wright, 28, is a big woman-and the best lady golfer in the world. After eight years as a pro, Mickey has won the U.S. Women's Open three times, the Ladies' P.O.A. three times, the Titleholders (female equivalent of the Masters) twice, and 45 pro tournaments in all-more than Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus combined. She has been the leading money winner among lady pros for two years...
Those Foolish Fellows. What makes Mickey so good? Might, mainly. Most lady pros are plunk-plunk, soft, accurate hitters. Mickey is strictly wham-wham, the longest driver in the ladies' game today, perhaps the longest ever. "She hits the ball farther than Babe Zaharias ever did," says Veteran Pro Louise Suggs, "and she gets her distance entirely in the air. Babe got hers entirely on the roll." Mickey averages 225 yds. off the tee, often gets the ball out 270 yds.: with the help of a 40-m.p.h. wind in the Dallas Civitan Open in 1960, she actually overdrove...
...daughter of a San Diego attorney, Mickey Wright began batting balls around a driving range at nine, played her first real round of golf at eleven. Within a year she was breaking 100. "The kids at school called me 'Moose,' " she says. "I had a terrible inferiority complex. I needed something to show my prowess. Golf was it." Mickey stopped feeling inferior at 15, when she shot a 70 in a San Diego tournament. In 1954 her father staked her to a summer on the pro tour-as an amateur. Mickey was low amateur at the Tarn...
That Tournament Trail. Today, blonde, blue-eyed Mickey Wright is the woman to beat in every tournament she plays. "It's a case of if I win, well, I was supposed to. If I don't, it's 'What's the matter with Mickey Wright?' " A determined career girl with few thoughts of marriage, she logs 35,000 miles a year in an air-conditioned Oldsmobile Starfire (supplied free by General Motors) that is practically a closet on wheels. Her traveling wardrobe: seven cocktail dresses, 20 blouses, 30 pairs of Bermuda shorts, 20 sweaters...