Word: troy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Motel, American drama has reached the nadir in its quest for the misbegotten hero: enter Wally Troy, retired major league baseball star (hit .325, 127 rbi's in his best year) and present owner of the Dugout Motel. Helping Myron McCormick as Wally is Vicki Cummings as Ruby, his complaining wife. Ruby has discovered that old baseball players make lousy motel owners, and she yearns for the old days when she had something to cheer about...
...good neighbor policy is precipitated by Wally Troy, who treks from cabin to cabin explaining in third-base-coach fashion that "the game isn't over 'til the last fly is caught," and that "you got to give." By applying this world series weltanschauung to her own life, Miss McKenna persuades the young man to marry the girl, realizes that people count, and repays Wally by extricating him from a jam. All is saved; and SYMBOLICALLY (of course) the M on the neon MOTEL sign flashes back on; it had been off during the play...