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...owner Haywood Sullivan in real life? Some experts in handwriting analysis claim that Sullivan is actually deposed New York Mets general manager M. Donald Grant. Actually, however, he is probably "Shylock" from "Merchant of Venice...
...House will build its offense around a strong line, consisting entirely of returning starters. Mike Ryan and Len Bush will share the quarterbacking chores, and will direct a run-oriented attack. "Hey," coach Haywood Miller says, "If we can run on guys, we'll just...
...press conference yesterday afternoon, Sox General Manager Haywood Sullivan announced the firing of Don Zimmer, the team's manager for the past four-and-a-half seasons...
...Bill Haywood, a veteran of the violent labor wars in the western mines, founded the International Workers of the World in 1905, his hope to organize the unskilled, minority and women laborers of the day into One Big Union. The group won its first big victory 20 miles from here in Lawrence in 1912, forcing the mill owners to shorten days and increase wages. A year later, the Wobblies suffered their biggest loss, when the silk manufacturers used police and scabs to maintain their grip. "We didn't include half of what we could have about government attempts to hurt...
...agitated wherever they went, setting up soapboxes, pasting up posters like the ones you occasionally see in the Square, big cartoons of strong men smashing the state. Pennants carried the One Big Union legend; there were no lapel pins, no sterling silver. Even the leaders were just old organizers; Haywood had learned how to blow up mines during the Colorado copper strikes of the 19th century, Mother Jones was a legend everyplace men went underground, trusting their lives to rotting timbers. In the Pacific Northwest, where the IWW enrolled almost every lumberjack, Wobblie Iry Hansen says, "The lumber companies were...