Ron Allen
Ron Allen
Ronald "Ron" Allenwas an African-American poet and playwright who described his work as a "concert of language." The Detroit native employed intuitive configurations of languageto invent new meaning and structures for the exploration and expression of language arts, including poetry and theater...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 September 1947
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This isn't what I wanted. I had every expectation of still being here on Saturday. Whether it was for third place or first place, we wanted to still be playing.
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This is the beginning of a unity of forces, a locking of arms.
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Cody was in control all game. You look at his record and he's only 2-2, but he's throwing against all the top teams.
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Are we anywhere close to where we've got to be? No. We've still got a long way to go. But getting a win under our belt gets that off our back and now we can move on.
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This facility will not only create a presence of our sovereignty collectively, as well as individually, but it also provides a station from which they can conduct business. Most of Indian Country comes into town for a few days, maybe a week, and most often don't have a place to operate out of. We hope we might provide work stations.
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We've been hitting the ball really well the last five or six games. We hit some balls hard, but right at people too. But today most of them found holes.
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I didn't know if he could make it to seven (innings). He gutted it out and threw a heck of a game.
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He really had a rough life starting off. It was one thing after another. But he has really turned out to be a tough old horse.
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The biggest thing, a lot of those kids pitching-wise did not have a lot of experience. We went 7-7 in the league, which isn't good, and most of the returning guys know that. They know the bad and the good of the program and most of those guys have been in both places - they've been through the 14-0 and the 7-7.
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It's amazing how he's got that competitive nature where he's not going to stop. That's a quality I wish I had more of. I've learned a lot playing with him all year. He's a teacher and he doesn't even know it. What he's doing I'm picking up on for the off season so I can work on my game.
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It was gigantic. Before the stand they were able to run the ball on us, but when we stopped them, it gave us momentum and took the wind out of their sails.
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It was a good ball game. Both teams had opportunities early. We just happened to finally take advantage of them late.
stagnant time took
It took us a long time to penetrate their zone. We were too stagnant on offense.
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It took a basketball player to win a soccer game.