MAY 8, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2015, 12:31 AM
BY BETSY MURPHY
CORRESPONDENT |
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Joan Ryan, who claims an ideal childhood in Ridgewood, will tell you she gives her father credit for her passion for baseball and sports. Her dad, Bob Ryan, coached Little League the years the family lived here.
Joan spent her impressionable years, from four to thirteen years old, with jaunts to the Duck Pond, summer and winter (“we would ice skate there”), or “going across the creek behind our house to skate in the parking lot.” She remembers having Mod parties with friends, Maureen Quinn and Diane Whitehead, wearing white mini-skirts and dancing; the basketball hoop on the garage; catching fireflies; the bus to Somerville. She remembers going to Lyon’s for candy, or milk for mom, and the trips to Tice’s Farm at Halloween. “It really was a perfect place to grow up!”
She adds, “There were no opportunities like that in Florida.”
Joan was the third of six children and her mother, tired of the cold, moved the family to Florida in 1972. “I didn’t like it at all,” says Joan.
Former MLB Catcher Bengie Molina will appear at Bookends Saturday, May 9th @1:00pm
Molina is a former MLB Catcher for Anaheim Angels, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the San Francisco Giants,
Bengie Molina, will sign his new book:
MOLINA: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty
Bengie will Sign ONE piece of Memorabilia with purchase of book!
Books available May 9th
Appearing authors will only autograph books purchased at Bookends and must have valid Bookends Receipt.
Availability & pricing for all autographed books subject to change.
First In Line Certificate use is the the discretion of Bookends. Blackout dates may apply.
Bookends cannot guarantee that the books that are Autographed will always be First Printings.
Autographed books purchased at Bookends are non-returnable.
While we try to ensure that all customers coming to Bookends’ signings will meet authors and get their books signed, we cannot guarantee that all attendees will meet the author or that all books will be signed. We cannot control inclement weather, author travel schedules or authors who leave prematurely.
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