I know Mickey had problems with his legs. How did he originally injure them?
While playing high school football Mickey was accidentally kicked in the leg. The wound developed into the bone disease osteomyelitis, and almost cost Mickey his leg. Mickey’s mother refused to let doctors remove his leg and transferred him to the crippled children’s hospital in Oklahoma City, where he received a brand-new wonder drug, penicillin. It saved his leg, but Mickey was plagued with leg problems for the remainder of his life.
