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...white middle class, and a different approach. He has taken a group up the slopes of Kilimanjaro and guided an expedition of gem hunters to the wilds of Idaho and Montana. Along the way, he has started a mock fan club of 15,000 for Seattle Pilots Shortstop Ray Oyler, who had the next to the lowest batting average in the American League one season, and he has led angry taxpayers to Olympia, the state capital, to press for tax reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Talk Jockeys | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...shot put, Joe Naughton "should and must win for us." McCurdy said. Harvard also looks strong in the 880 with Bob Clayton and Dave Elliott expected to rate over Princeton's Bob Oyler and Tom Nunnery. McCurdy called the two-mile "the race of the day." He expects strong performances from Jeff Brokaw and Jon Enscoe...

Author: By E. J. Dionne, | Title: Injuries Will Hurt Track, But Harvard Win Expected | 4/17/1971 | See Source »

...protecting him from himself. They are necessary. Fame has brought Denny fortune?and constant problems. At home, the phone is forever ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler, has taken to answering the phone: "Mr. McLain's office." Denny is already scheduled for post-season appearances, playing the organ on the Ed Sullivan Show and at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Capitol is preparing a record album by the Denny McLain Quintet, with Denny playing such standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...double off McAuliffe. It was a good throw, but Dalton Jones couldn't find the handle, and the ball skittered away, letting McAuliffe score. Before the horrible inning was over, Willie Horton got a wind-blown double to center, Freehan another scratch single both off the hapless Culp--and Oyler a run-scoring single off reliever Lee Stange...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Impossible Dreamers Drop Boston Opener to Detroit | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

...eighth inning of yesterday's humiliation at Fenway Park, Tiger shortstop Ray Oyler struck in vain at a Sparky Lyle slant. It was his third such failure, so Sox catcher Elston Howard whipped the ball in the general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the 'CRIME' | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

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