Ryba

Belatedly recalling Ryba's admonition, he tried to sense beyond the trail that was still not a road, for all the travel between the clayworks and the tower.

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"Ryba," Nylan offered gently, "no one who really cares about anything is ever finished with life.

Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996

Local hero Ryba started and was torched for six runs, all of them earned, in the first two innings.

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Diz then overpowered the second hitter, Pee Wee Dwight, as Allen swiped second and advanced to third when Ryba tossed the ball into center field.

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Springfield was eager to welcome home Paul Dean and Mike Ryba, both of whom helped lead the local Cardinals to Western League championships.29 Ryba enjoyed the company of the black players.

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Once the Series game ended, Diz, Paul, and Ryba hit the street in search of a barbershop but got detoured by a snooker parlor.

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They collected eleven more hits and two more tallies against Caldwell and Mike Ryba.44

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The afternoon before the Springfield game, Ryba and the Deans held court for some good old boys at a diner.

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Former Reds pitcher Lee Stine also signed on for part of the swing, as did utility man and seasoned barnstormer Mike Ryba 9-6 as a pitcher; .313 in 48 at-bats of the Cards.

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“Every time we ran across Ryba it was like meeting a brother or something,” Newt Allen remembered.30

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