What's My Line? - Mickey Mantle (May 17, 1953)
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- MYSTERY GUEST: Mickey Mantle
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Steve Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf
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Can you imagine if someone had saved all those blackboards with those countless signatures? Priceless
+jonny chingas Someone did (at least some of them); I can't imagine its being for anyone other than mystery guests, of course. They do occasionally show up for sale. I seem to recall hearing about one a few months ago appearing on E-bay and bringing several hundred dollars--sorry, but I don't remember whose. Dali's ought to be worth a LOT.
+jonny chingas They actually weren't blackboards; they were poster boards, so they could have (and should have) been saved for posterity. Yes, the mind boggles at how much these autographs might be worth!
Some indeed were saved and occasionally are on e-bay....
Some networks didn't even save most shows. NBC wiped tons of videotape in the '60s, deleting half of Johnny Carson's career. Videotape was very bulky in those days.
Do not buy any WML boards ! They are 99.9 percent fake
I have started watching these shows and am now powerless to stop.
ADDICTIVE😁
I LOVE the old black and white game shows! They were before my time, but still love them! Seemed like a much more wholesome time than what we have now, sadly.
The earliest example of my handwriting is from 1958, when, at 4 years old I took my miniature baseball bat and wrote on it in crayon, "Mantle Bat". I still have it, and I'm nearly 70 years-old.
Mickey Mantle's appearance on What's My Line came a month after he hit the 565 foot home run over the left field roof at Griffith Stadium against the Washington Senators.
Mickey Mantle was my first sports hero. Not a tall man or over 200 pounds but no one before or after has hit a baseball in a league game any further than him. He played virtually every game in pain and was still great. He died way too young.
I was fortunate enough to see Mantle play in person once, in his final season. He was relegated to first base due to the bad knees, and I was only a nine-yr-old, so I didn't appreciate the significance. I do remember his arms. The guy had biceps like tree trunks.
I witnessed Carton Fisk & Big Papi hit homeruns over 660 feet at Fenway Park in Boston.
Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Ted Williams and many others didn’t have to tank up on steroids to hit the ball and falsely claim to break the record. What a sham they are these days.
@@richardmilliken8705 naww I don't think ANYBODY'S ever hit one that far. The record books say mantle hit 1 565 in Washington at Griffith stadium
@@richardmilliken8705 You were drunk
I was five/six when I met Mickey Mantle. He came to my little league sign up. So probably 1966/1967. I was a little redheaded little girl. Redhead like him. He gravitated to me and asked if I knew who he was. I remember quite clearly that he said he was Mickey Mantle, and I said “no your not”. I guess he had a good laugh. Wish I had gotten his autograph!
Mick never lost his Oklahoma attitude . Some of us are from the same home town as Mick and we understand him . This show was on the air before I was born and before my grand parents had a TV . Micks presence was still In Commerce in the 70s when I was a little kid and his mom still lived there . When Mick came to town to visit his Mom he would sign baseballs for the kids who would knock on her door and ask for one. Great days indeed .
my mom anddand are in their 70s and loved this sho.my favourite 1 is the with tab hunter.
I didn’t realize what a handsome man Mickey Mantle was! Wow! Handsome!
That was before he drank himself to death.
The lighthouse keeper sure was enjoying herself! (: She had such a nice smile! (: (: (:
The leg make up man was very charming and friendly. He seemed so relaxed on the show, rather than trying to be serious. The whole show was very enjoyable. Thanks for the upload.
+Vickie Harris my gaydar was going off, was yours?
Spider Bug i didn't say it mattered, i said it was somewhat obvious.
+tomitstube Scroll down this comment thread to this channel creator's remarks in reply to this matter, and read it!
+archraskal i read your comment and i agree with it, many people are hard to read... many gay people aren't obvious.... you seem to think that because i think the man is gay it automatically makes me a bigot. and i never said "gaydar" was scientific, or proof of anything, it's an intuition, an observation that of course could be wrong, it's just something i surmised about his demeanor, many gay people have traits that give them away, that's why they're gay, but yeah i could be wrong, i was simply asking someone else if they saw the same things i did. i wasn't insulting him, i've been called gay for one reason or another and laughed about it, sometimes i'll go along with it for fun. it would appear you are the one who read something that wasn't there.
But they did not guess one single occupation :/
I met Mickey Mantle at an old timers game in 1980. I still have the photo of Mickey and me.
cool!
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Mick was THE MAN.
Ted Williams was the god
I envy you. A lot!
At 13, my 1st game, '67, Anaheim, Mantle homered! Best thing I ever saw.
how charming the remark about the technician in the hospital ... someone we do not see but someone whose talents we benefit from ... makes one feel the show is a family ... I like that ...
Dorothy breaking out in hysterical laughter at 7:56 as Arlene fumbles with her question is priceless!
I would so love to watch these in chronological order, just to get the feeling of what it was like back then...
So. . . watch them in chronological order. The entire available series-- more than was ever rerun-- is posted on this channel, with chronological playlists for just the purpose you mentioned! :)
I watch them in chronological order.
@@WhatsMyLine I'll have to do that. Thanks VERY much for the info.
Yes, I also watch one a day. While on my treadmill 😊
I got MM's autograph on Sunday morning, Sept 15, 1963 at the Radisson Hotel in downtown Minneapolis as he was coming off the hotel elevator on his way to breakfast. Great thrill for a little 8-year old Yankee die hard.
What did you get signed?
I met Mickey Mantle in the early 1980s at a sports dinner my dad dragged me to. I have a baseball with his signature on it.
It’s worth a fortune
No, you do not have a baseball- you have (according to the inimitable Mr Cerf) a "manipulated spheroid" It's a good thing the panelists appearance fees weren't derived on a per-spoken-word rating...Bennett Cerf was so verbose, he could have purchased CBS outright!
This show aired on my 5th birthday. The home run Cerf mentioned was the day the term "the tape-measure home run" was born. I remember my parents laughing in the living room watching this show, but it was on too late for us to stay up and watch. They're still funny today.
Young Mickey...in a few years the applauds would have been massive
@M That's wonderful. Now, stay offa baseball diamonds for your games.
Funny! Steve asks the contestant "why don't you try to guess what we do"! He was missed when he left as a regular and was always fun when he guest paneled.
and one of the most intelligent men ever on TV.
Steve Allen had a special kind of genius.
I started watching 'The Tonight Show' when he was the host. Fun times. Superb talent extreme in ALL his works, well done Steve.
1967 was a great day, I was eight yrs young. A family friend and I took the A train to the D train to Yankee stadium. Mickey had gone from right field to first base . Walking along the rails by first base, I waved and said high to the Mick. I’m proud to have witnessed this. It became history!
The leg make-up guy's segment was the most entertaining back and forth I've seen so far on this show! I loved it.
I think the leg make up guy was fun, I like when they every day guests enjoy themselves
Bambi Harris ~ I totally agree!!! ❤️
He was amazing, in the top three of all the ones I’ve seen.
“Did you ever hit a ball 563 feet over a fence in Washington” one of the most known and loved baseball players ever
I am really enjoying this. I was born in the 1970s & missed it in its first run. I rather like shows that require knowledge and discussion more than random luck.
Just 4 minutes in and Mrs. Johnson is already beaming brighter than any lighthouse.
😊😁🙃
She’s adorable 🥰
... now, on to the rest of the show!
🎥 💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨💨
Be well, stay kind and blessings to all ~
Yes! She seemed over the moon to be on the show. I'd like to imagine that What's My Line kept her company during those long shifts at the lighthouse.
What a happy beautiful soul she is 😊
I didn't realize Mickey Mantle was already that famous in 1953, where he could be guessed so quickly and they were so honored to have him.
Mr. Davie, the leg marke up maker, is so far one of the bests non-celebrity guests on the show. He was just having a great laugh, not nervous or anything. Great pleasure to watch. :)
What IS leg make up? Do women still use it?
@@marcschneider4845 or Steve Allens ☺
I thought so too! He seemed to really enjoy himself!! 👏👏
@@marcschneider4845It’s like marke up, apparently according to hypolyxa7207 … wtf?
This particular episode looks very sharp.and clear. Everyone looks great! Thank you so much for these historic WML shows.
I've got to say Mr. Davies was quite the character full of humor. The interaction between him and John was hysterical. " You take this, I'm numb ", I lost it.😅
Like Bennett Cerf, I would have recognized that Okie twang right away. Mantle was bigger than anybody on Broadway or in the movies. He was our Prince (mine anyway) Wish I had that blackboard with his autograph. I surely miss the Mick.
As soon as he said his first, 'yup ', I knew they'd guess him. Iconic.
yeah but at the time he was just mickey mantle 1952 all star.
As a 12 year-old, my little league from Newark NJ took us to Yankee Stadium the day before Mickey Mantle Day. We thought, since he was retiring, that he was old & was ready to...die. I'm now twice his age & I realize our misconception...lol. By the way; Yankee Stadium was a dump back then. It was old & decrepit....even to us kids.
Wow! to think Stopette created the first truly functional cosmetic containers!!! POOF!!! As many times as I've heard and seen the Stopette spots for some reason it tickled me tonight! POOF!!!
What a delightful show! I'm not talking about just this episode, but I'm referring to all the WML episodes. The panel is always so classy and so are the guests and Mr. Daly! Thank you!
Mickey's contributions to this show were seven yeps and a thank-you.
Too bad the gambit writer(s) didn’t give up the gambit and start writing a few interview questions for John to use with each mystery guest. Interviewing was not one of John’s talents.
No, he also contributed looking very handsome.
Even today, when you think of famous baseball players, the first one that comes to mind is Mickey Mantle. (Met fan here).
Speak for yourself,pipe dreamer
@@joeambrose3260
Watch your mouth, punk.
Or you'll get a steel toed boot jammed up your ass.
In Boston, we still consider Ted "Ballgame" Williams to be the greatest Hitter of All-time! Ted was a WWII Fighter Pilot and he also involved in Combat in the Korean War. No Wars, and Ted Williams breaks all of Babe Ruth's Homerun Records and all of Ty Cobbs Hitting records. Ted lost almost 6 years in his prime because of his military service. Teddy was a world class fisherman & hunter.
@@richardmilliken8705 u left out world class asshole that he was also
For you, maybe...
This aired 20 years prior to the exact day I was born. It must have been written in the stars that I would be a Yankees fan. ❤⚾️
Amazing that he was already considered legendary and he hadn't even reached his peak yet
@@clash5j dimaggio was an overrated bum
@@clash5j Dimaggio was a wife beater.......
If I was ever on WML, I would ask Dorothy if I could see HER hands. 😆
I love Arlene Francis' voice
Arlenes beauty was spectacular 😊
Thank you, dear Lord, this episode is helping me get over this COVID19 hysteria!
By ‘hysteria’, do you mean ‘rational response to a deadly pandemic’?
Mickey’s voice gave him away instantly.
That Oklahoma draw of his was just too thick to hide.
Mickey the Great!!! God Bless #7.
I wonder, like everyone else, if Mickey Mantle was the shortest MG on the show? Bennett nailed it! Of course, he'd been waiting eight weeks for Mantle to come on the show! I loved the leg-makeup guy, he was so relaxed and was having so much fun with the whole thing. Dorothy looked extremely put out when they revealed the last contestant was a bagpipe instructor. All in all a great episode. I loved it!
Based on the chatter immediately afterwards, there seemed to be some question as to how this person worked for the government. Apparently, even though he trained Army band members, he wasn't a member of the U.S. Army himself. He gave a no answer when Steve Allen asked him if he wore a uniform (and that would include a band uniform).
My first thought was exactly the same as Dorothy's. "Who the hell would he instruct in the government to play bagpipes?" And Lois makes a good point, I would think he'd have to wear some kind of uniform-like garb even as a civilian. A kilt would've counted imo. I think John Daly was caught up in having too much fun stumping the panel.
@@NoobsShadow If he was only instructing others in how to play the bagpipes and never actually marching or performing with the Army bagpipe players, then he probably wouldn't have had to wear a costume. And even if he sometimes performed with them wearing a kilt or something, I think that counts more as a costume than a uniform, and Steve specifically used the word "uniform."
By "shortest" you must mean "most quickly guessed." Though he hunched down over the desk, Mantle was a six-footer. I misread your question at first and started thinking of short people like Mickey Rooney (5'2") and Gloria Swanson (5'1") as well as child actors like Eddie Hodges.
Cerf should've recused himself.
I think it was rare for the panel to be completely stumped by all three of the non-celebrity contestants like this. It was a fun episode, though. The first contestant just couldn't stop smiling, the second was also clearly enjoying himself. I hope they didn't hurt the bagpipe instructor's feelings by being so dubious about his profession, though I have to admit I was very surprised to find out that he worked for the federal government.
He probably was the person who trained the bagpipe performers in the Army Band that played John F. Kennedy's funeral in 1963.
Not surprised, bagpipes, govt. bureaucraps.. they all blow.
@@robertsprouse9282 Ha Ha Ha, and so TRUE to this day.
@@robertsprouse9282 Except when you need help or money. Then you don't mind, I bet.
Steve - "Thank You Very Much Leopard Woman"..........LOL!
The Mick...a real man's man. God how I loved him as a little boy. Seven is still my favorite number (along with Dan Marino's 13).
The best thing they ever did with this show was to get rid of the practice of sending the guest over to meet thepanel and the panel getting a free guess as to what their occupation was. That was too time consuming anyway.
Eddie Schantz
Absolutely agree, I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Eddie Schantz ~ I agree as well.
It eliminated the need for the guest to shake hands afterward. Six of one half a dozen of the other, if you ask me.
I agree but by this stage they just walked over and one of them looked at their hands. It’s far less annoying than when they used to make them turn around and touch their toes. And they were entertaining in their guesses, at least.
Steve Allen was only 31 at the time of this broadcast, more than 20 years younger than Bennett, 14 years younger than Arlene, 8 less than Dorothy and 7 years younger than John Daly.
Arlene was only 6 years younger than Bennett? Wow! I thought she might be younger than that.
Interesting observation.
Another wanna be mathematician
@@joeambrose3260 Alright then smart guy, show your work. Don't talk shit if you're not going to bother backing it up.
@@md_vandenberg It's a troll (and a jackass). Don't feed it.
Mick actually played for the Yankees that day, striking out twice but drawing three walks. New York beat the Browns, 6-5, on a two-RBI single by Billy Martin the bottom of the 10th. (Future Yankee hero Don Larsen pitched for St. Louis in this game, and so did Satchel Paige!)
Saved me the trouble of looking it up myself!
Didn't have to raise a sweat on the show, may be just as well.
Wow! So cool! Thanks.
Thanks for the re-cap, Dick Young
Even though I was born on 1960, I do remember the names.
Mickey Mantle was a wild man. He lived life to its fullest, which is probably why he passed away too young.
Bennett Cerf was the "What's My Line" GOAT.
I never forgot a response from Mantle to a question from a reporter about his hitting. "I'm not a hitter. Ted Williams's a hitter. I'm a slugger."
FYI $50 in 1953 equals $438 today, a fun night in NYC then..
MerleOberon - I thought that $50 was probably worth a lot more than it would be today. Yeah, a really fun time in the city.
Plus , I believe they got a $ 500 appearance fee
I love how they love baseball. I can hear it in their voice when they say the word "baseball". I used to love baseball, too.
Happy to see the panel got 3 strikes and one home run with one of the most elite baseball players in history. Was an enjoyable 26 minutes. Interesting professions too!
the Mick was only 21 years old and just started his 3rd year with the Yankees, in the previous world series he hit his 1st series HR. 11 years later in 1964, he broke the Babes series record and recorded his 18th round tripper, a world series record that will never even be approached. If someone was smart enough to keep that board that Mickey signed it would be the most valuable signature by a what's my line guest ever, it could bring thousands.
I was expecting more of a hand for Mickey Mantle. By this time in 1953 he was pretty well established with the Yankees, had been an all-star, and I thought was a hero to men and boys already. I'm sure a few years later his appearance would occasion an uproarious ovation.
Mickey had only completed one full major league season and was only 21 years old at the time of the filming of this episode. Sure he had a good year in 1952, but as I said it was his only fully season at this point and time and nobody would have any idea at this time that he would become the famous player he'd turn into. Also you may under estimated the hand he got since Bennett mentioned what a big ovation he received.
+Jeff Vaughn
Actually, Mantle was being touted as the next great Yankee superstar before he played in his first major league game with the Yankees. He didn't see any action when he was called up to the big club at the end of the 1950 season, but in the following Spring Training, Casey Stengel's eyes bugged out at Mickey's power and speed. Immediately, Mickey was turned over to Tommy Henrich to teach him how to play outfield. Power hitters in those days played outfield or the corner infield positions (and occasionally behind the plate), but rarely shortstop. Besides, starting shortstop Phil Rizzuto was still in the prime of his career in 1951 (he was AL MVP the previous season).
19 year old ballplayers rarely make their team's major league roster. Not only did Mantle do that with a two-time defending World Championship team, his receipt of a low number as a rookie was even more unheard of. To the Yankees equipment manager, it was simple logic. The three greatest players in Yankees history up to that time were Babe Ruth (#3), Lou Gehrig (#4) and Joe DiMaggio (#5). As their presumed successor, he assigned Mantle the next number in succession (#6), taking the number away from a seasoned player by the name of Bobby Brown (a World Series batting star many times, future cardiologist and eventually interim President of the Texas Rangers and then AL President for 10 years).
Yes, #6 was Mantle's first number when he started playing for the Yankees in 1951. Cliff Mapes had worn #7 since 1949, his second season with the Yankees. When he was traded to the St. Louis Browns on July 31, #7 was briefly given to Bob Cerv who had just been called up from the minors to replace Mapes on the roster. Mantle had been sent down to the Yankees minor league team in Kansas City to get him straightened out due to a slump and he was still there when Mapes was traded. When they recalled Mick later in August and sent down Cerv, Mickey (who didn't like #6), was given #7 (which apparently suited him just fine - and yes, I saw the pun as I was typing it).
A history footnote: Mapes was the last Yankee to wear #3 during his rookie season in 1948. The number was retired after Babe Ruth died that year. So Mapes wore two numbers during his Yankee career that eventually were retired because they were the numbers associated with Yankee superstars.
Lois Simmons Jesus, Lois, for a broad you sure know your baseball!
Joe Postove LOL
Let's just say that I had an unusual upbringing for a "broad". (Did I stumble into "Guys and Dolls"?) That includes the fact that I had a brother (my only sibling) who was five years older than me who I both looked up to and competed with. He was a fanatic Dodger rooter in childhood and even for a number of years after they moved to LA (and I still root for them). We hated the Yankees, but it was nothing compared to what we felt towards the Giants. (I can't even bring myself to root for the Giants in football.) The biggest traumatic moments of my childhood had to be:
1) Being kept home by my mom when I was three years old because I had "sniffles" and couldn't go with my dad and brother to a game at Ebbets Field in 1956. The next year, we all went to a game between the Dodgers and Giants at the Polo Grounds and the Dodgers won (yay!). It was the next to last game played between the two teams in NYC so I never got to see a game at Ebbets Field.
2) The Dodgers move to LA.
3) The Dodgers lose in the 9th inning of the third game of a tie-breaker playoff (again!) against the Giants in 1962 and I have to watch a World Series between the Giants and the Yankees. It was never a matter of who I wanted to win. It was a matter of who did I want to lose more. (I never did decide.)
My dad was also a sports fan and a Dodger fan. Not only did he take me to my first Dodger game, he took me to my first NHL game at the third Madison Square Garden (8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets) between the Rangers and the Red Wings back in the days when there were only 6 NHL teams. (I remember going down a long metal outdoor fire escape to get from our seats to street level at the end of the game.)
My mom hated football. But she liked watching the boys and young men play baseball in the park when she was growing up. And after she and my dad married, he would have her listen to the Dodger games on the radio so she could tell him what happened when he got home from work. And she fell in love with the Dodgers first radio announcer, Red Barber.
So I grew up with the Dodgers from my earliest days. Supposedly a baby in the womb is able to hear sounds at about 18 weeks of development. That would have been June of the 1952 baseball season. I was an early talker (surprised?) and among the first words I spoke were Old Golds and beer. Old Golds was the Dodgers cigarette sponsor and every team had a beer sponsor in those days, too. (The Dodgers had Schaefer, probably too difficult for me to pronounce at that age.) I learned to read, do arithmetic and a lot of U.S. geography from sports. It wasn't long after I could do long division that I could figure out a batting average or won-lost percentage. And ERA meant Earned Run Average, not Equal Rights Amendment.
Growing up, I was in plenty a pick-up game, whether stickball, touch football or ice hockey. Going to a small private school, I was able to play and letter in baseball (4 years), ice hockey (goalie - 3 years), soccer (1 year) and cross country (1 year). And in college (Cornell) I was the team manager for track & field and cross country all four years. I got to meet a number of Olympians (at least one who won gold), a winner of the Boston Marathon, and saw the stadium at Oxford where Roger Bannister ran the first sub 4 minute mile.
I even tried to get a job in sports publicity or writing when I graduated from college. But I didn't have the skills to sell myself and push for it in those days. I only contributed to one book on baseball in that short career.
And I have other reasons. But that is more a matter of IGAS than WML. A woman has to have some things that are private and an air of mystery!
Lois Simmons I like the idea of baseball more than I like the game (even though my family is filled with athletes...and my Uncle Harry was a long time major league scout). I enjoy the stories and the drama of the teams and the players (have you ever read "Even The Browns"? It is about this totally luckless team that finally won a pennant (in the midst of WWII when most players were overseas or playing for service leagues) and stayed in St. Louis for 52 years despite having to compete with the Cardinals AND sharing the same ballpark. It is a great book about a team that somehow made it through all adversity (though they were a contender early in the 20th Century). They were the original gimmick ball team, having a one armed player for a season, and putting a midget up to bat (tiny strike zone) to excite the team. That's what I like most about baseball. I used to go to American Legion games with my Dad in the summer as he "bird dogged" for my uncle. I enjoyed going out for dinner with my Dad, and being with him. But the game, well I pretty much ignored.
I am totally hooked on this show.
I remember trading Mickey Mantle cards as a kid..
Any cards worth millions i f you still have them?
MICKEY MANTLE - the one name from my childhood in the 60s that stands OUT as the IDOL to Millions of young boys!
I was a young young lad of 2 days old when this was aired
I was almosyt 1 [yeaR OLD] when this aired years ago.
I came along a couple of years later ... which is appropriate, since my parents were married on the day this was broadcast, and I'm their second child.
Now there's a profession I would never be able to guess -- lighthouse keeper! There are only so many lighthouses on the coasts of North America. Of course, most of them nowadays are automated and don't have an attendant living on site.
And you'd have a better chance at "leg makeup"?
@@LarsRyeJeppesen LOL!
I was waiting for Steve or Bennett to riff on "light housekeeping" versus "lighthouse keeping" but they missed their chance.
Arlene Francis was a fine-looking woman at the time.
Timothy Hughes She always seemed like a woman who really liked men.
That may be so, but once she started speaking in her somewhat blazé style, with odd things happening with the vowels, a large portion of the charm was gone. The actress playing her role in the WML spoof from 1964 caught that absoluuuuuutely wonderfully: czcams.com/video/KF1UsdzvJP8/video.html
@MANCHESTER UNITED bunch o limp legged jessies
@MANCHESTER UNITED Who cares Americans are not into that sissy sport. Also Americans don't riot when one team loses a game.
@M You must know that many of us are here, because we like baseball and are fans of one of the greats, Mickey Charles Mantle. Why the sour grapes? You like soccer. Big deal.
1953, Mantle wasn't yet the legend. Polite applause on his entry.
It could be argued Mantle was a legend from Day One as a major leaguer. He started with the Yankees as a teenager, skipping the minor leagues altogether, and his devastating home runs were already big news. In fact, the phrase "tape measure home run" got started with the 565 foot homer alluded to by Bennett Cerf. Mantle's potential was so highly regarded, he got paid an exorbitant salary for a rookie at that time: $7500! (It's too bad that Cerf, obviously a big baseball fan, immediately guessed his identity - Mantle probably could have used the $50!)
....I want Miss Kilgallen’s STUNNING necklace...;)!!
Dig it up.......
I want that blindfold that looks like a thong …
Mickey Mantle is beautiful and great baseball player aww ❤️❤️❤️
I've been watching these in chronological order, and I've never seen the panel so thoroughly baffled by the contestants. They just couldn't catch a break. To be fair, those were hard professions to guess.
Everyone had such beautiful handwriting!
I got to meet Mickey Mantle on the set of an aspirin commercial,working Security,,Very down to earth guy,,!
Happy Thanksgiving 2020 today is 1st time price is right marathon and this one is from what's my line in late 1950 early 1951
And late 1952 early 1953 Sunday night were fun in the 1950s
I just love these programs
Mickey Mantle was good at two things: Getting drunk and playing drunk baseball.
Taking amphetamines was also an accusation against him when hungover from the night before.
I watched MM play baseball with my father on a small black and white TV in the den.
We ate saltine crackers and cheese and cokes.
This was treat for me, (but not as early as 1953.)
Sounds exactly how my grandmother would tell me about watching him back in the mid to late fifties and even into the sixties watching with my grandfather and her father in law watching him on a black and white tv in the rec room
@@christophermaine4085
MM didn't have to take STEROIDS to hit the ball !!!!!!!
saw Mickey break in in 1951 and saw him retire gone way too soon started watching baseball 1947 mi boyhood idol was Joe DiMaggio
I get such a kick out of this...there is no way to hide that Oklahoma accent...the first man to question him knew instantly it was Mickey Mantle.
John promoted the radio WML on Wednesday Nights. I wonder if that was live as well. I can see how it wouldn't be as attractive to network radio audiences (of which there were still many many millions in 1953) as "Line" is a very visual show. Seeing the person is part of guessing his line. Just a voice in the wilderness would have fallen flat.
Joe Postove It was live. It was also the only version to feature Marlon Brando and Marlene Dietrich.
Do you know how long it lasted, Vahan. And since there is one at "archives.org" I'll check it out. Thanks!
Joe Postove May 20, 1952-July 1, 1953.
***** I'm curious if you know, if the regular tv panel also appeared on the radio version? Thanks!!
Jeffrey Crippen Same cast.
I thought the Mickey Mantle episode was lost forever. What a treat to finally see it! Maybe the Ty Cobb episode will surface sometime too.
Anything is possible, but virtually every episode in circulation is in circulation because GSN reran it at least one, as with this Mickey Mantle show. The Ty Cobb episode has never been seen since its original airing, unfortunately. Certainly one of the most painful episodes to be lost, given its historic importance.
+Lava1964 He was barely on the episode. He only said one word!
+Christopher Burns I counted seven "yeps" and a "thank you."
What's My Line?
Is there a list of mystery guests that are 'lost'?
And a list of those that should have done an episode but never did?
Monroe?
James Dean?
I read they're recreating the Cobb show with a hologram
Nine days later, Mantle appeared as the celeb guest on "The Name's The Same" which was the first knockoff version of WML that Goodson-Todman created (where the gimmick was guessing the name of a contestant whose name was the same as a famous person, or whose name could be a thing or an action). And eight months earlier he'd appeared on "I've Got A Secret" then in just its third month on the air.
Great as the Mick was in his career, it was sad that he squandered much of his talent through hard living simply because he was convinced he'd die young just like his father.....and then he managed to live long enough into his 60s to see the consequences of his destructive behavior.
epaddon his drinking was partly due to him trying to deal with the constant pain in his knee which he got the 1st yr in the majors & caused problems in other areas & still had the career he did
+orgonko the wildly untamed
It may be hard to believe but it shows just what kind of an athlete the young Mantle was! Before he stepped into an open drain in the outfield and forever damaged his knee he was the FASTEST person ever timed from home plate to first base!!
+epaddon great ball player, not the sharpest knife in the drawer...
Never say a person squandered their life. It was not yours to live nor reap your enjoyment from except what they want to give. Mickey was
made to feel like shit by fans
he squandered nothing, for 10 years straight he was the best ballplayer on the planet . Kubeck said it best "we always thought we would win because we had Mickey and they didn't"
I never knew he was so handsome!
May the bagpipes live on forever!!!
It's my guess the guy was originally from Glasgow!
Yep... the great Mick!
This episode PROVES to me at LONG LAST that they DON'T know the answers beforehand. GOOD!!
NOW I can enjoy it fully. :)
It was imperative to show that the show was 100% legit....Daly got to flipping all the cards in later games, but in early games he stuck to the $5 or $10 prize
The Mick...damn!
My goodness Mantle was magnificent. No wonder he had the world by the tail. Too bad he drank it all away. One can only wonder what might have been had he taken care of himself like an athlete his whole career.
Christ Almighty, get off your knees
@@joeambrose3260 Why don't you get on your knees Joe Ambrose.... J A your initials....short for jackass?
Mickey's Father & Grandfather both died from Hodgkin's disease in their 30's, so Mantle figured that the same thing was going to happen to him, so he didn't take good care of himself.
I wonder if there was ever an episode where they got it on the wild guess and what would happen
They have several times
Arlene became even more beautiful year after year.
I am hysterical! I have seen this episode before but just realized the gentleman involved with leg makeup is Kramer, Seinfeld Series. The episode where Kramer salvaged the old Merv Griffin set, was emcee and interviewed his friends as they stopped by his apt. Lol! I have never been able to parallel these classic shows until now.
23:58 Arlene concentrating with all her might despite laughter/ ignoring Dorothy
@GIARCO SERROT Either that or she's got a headache.
Dorothy Is ok , but can get on my nerves sometimes
That voice of Arlene... ;-)
#7 was my first boyhood hero...The Mick!
Yeah he was mine too. Until i learned that #21 in my home town of Pittsburgh, was a real man, and #7 was only a shadow of a man. Live and learn!
@@bradkirsch368 The Great Roberto was indeed a tremendous a ball player and an outstanding human being. I'd be happy to have both him and the Mick in my outfield.
These shows bring back my youth
I do no think that many now can understand what Mickey Mantle meant to boys and men back then. He was far beyond a sports star and hero. He was like God had come down to play baseball. Around 1990 I was working for a fairly large up and coming company. Our CEO and founder had a 50th birthday that we all went to that was a formal dinner and party in a hotel ball room. Just over half way through the party. His wife said she had one more surprise for him. At that, out from the side came Mickey Mantle to wish him happy birthday. Our boss, who was always even keel and thought fast on his feet. Instantly broke down sobbing at the sight of the Mick. I mean sobbing like a new mother holding her first baby for the first time. I know just how he felt because I instantly was sobbing too to see Mickey Mantle in person in the same room as I was in. I looked around and every guy there was in tears or near it or looked totally stunned. What made Mickey even bigger to me that night. Was that I know he had seen this same thing hundreds of times before. But you could easily see on his face that he just could not understand why this man in front of him was crying like this.
My Daddy loved " The Mick"
To this day, I think that having the challenger promenade in front of the panel, and their "free guess" as to what he or she did was a total waste of time. How foolish to think that an occupation can be surmised just by looking at the person! What nonsense!
Is this possibly the record for this show for shortest appearance by a guest, Mantle??
Bennett once guessed the occupation after the initial walk by, a slot machine repair-man from Nevada. His guess "someone who fixes one arm bandits", as in "prevents the patron from winning", but that was considered close enough that no questions from the panel followed, and the guest got to go home.
@@VC-Toronto There was another instance where a Rams football player, while not a mystery guest, was guessed that he was a football player because of his build.
It’s the shortest so far (in chronological order), but Dorothy was a close second when she guessed Shirley Booth.
A baseball legend!
Mantle makes an interesting contrast to the first sports figure who appeared as a WML mystery guest -- Phil Razuto. [sp] Starting in 1956 Phil became a major sports broadcaster.
soulierinvestments ...p/s, it’s ‘Rizzuto’..:)
Phil Razuto lived in my building, he never told me he was on TV
The geat Mick..superstar....
Good job Bennett on mystery guest
I was sitting in the upper deck behind home at a night game in '66 or '67and saw Mantle hit a high pop fly between 1st and 2nd. Only the ball kept rising and going. It landed deep into the right field bleachers. Some pop fly!
"Does your job RELATE to the land more than the sea". I'd say no. Her job is located on land, but it relates equally to the land and the sea. The question was about relation, not location.