Word: ryan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ryan's Yorktown Tune. If Oh, Kay! isn't American enough for you, you can check out this "Bicentennial play" commissioned by Tufts in honor of the occasion. Don't expect any of the typical fife-drum-and-bugle-stars-and-stripes hoopla, though. This play reportedly addresses the question, "Do people make revolutions or do revolutions make people?" and the plot concerns a cowardly Boston barman who is forced to become a revolutionary because he needs the money and because Sam Adams threatens to put a bullet through his head. The script isn't flawless, but the production...
...Saudi Arabians, who until 1972 were represented by the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton, Inc., are shopping for a new agency. Martin Ryan Haley & Associates, Inc., which provides its clients with expertise on politics and Government operations, is at work for several Arab countries, developing ideas to improve their standing in the U.S. Among Haley's proposals: a heavy investment on American campuses, setting up large numbers of Arab study centers, importing visiting professors from Arab lands and promoting exchange visits of all kinds...
When he failed to improve after the Mets traded him to the Angels following the 1971 season, Ryan nearly quit the game. Angel Pitching Coach Ted Morgan (now with San Diego) urged his frustrated pupil to slow his delivery. With that, Ryan started to develop a sharp curve and an effective change-up-"the only 90 m.p.h. change-up in the majors," jokes Fellow Angel Pitcher Bill Singer. Meanwhile Ryan had started using a scalpel to shave off the scar tissue and calluses on his ringers, under which blisters were forming. (To this day he spends five minutes before every...
Basketball Dream. Though Ryan still suffers from control woes-he led the majors in walks for the past three seasons-he is now the compleat pitcher. By combining powerful leg thrust off the rubber with whip action in his arm, the 6-ft. 2-in., 198 lb. pitcher fires a fastball that, if anything, is fastest at the end of a game. When he doesn't want to throw smoke, he is not shy about switching to his curve or change-up, even when the count is 3 and 2. By that time batters are usually so intimidated that...
...Ryan's heart wasn't in baseball until he realized his dream of being a basketball center was impossible because he just didn't have the height. That was while he was in high school in Alvin, Texas, a small town 25 miles from Houston. Ryan, the son of an oil company supervisor, still lives in Alvin with his wife Ruth and three-year-old son Reid, and has no intention of abandoning his unpretentious country-boy life, despite a salary of more than $100,000 a year. A duck, deer and quail hunter in the offseason...