Word: corking
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...Cork, resin, paraffin and tenpenny nails are abominations designed to make the ball fly a greater distance, but the pine-tar section of Rule 1.10 ("not more than 18 in. from the end") was included merely to keep the ball clean, actually in consideration to the hitter. From the second Brett homered to right, and Nettles ran to Zimmer, and Zimmer ran to Manager Billy Martin, and Martin ran to the umpires, and the New York Times ran it on Page One, no one argued that Brett had taken or received any unfair advantage. And that was the crux...
...yesterday's cork popper, Eliot captured the Alexander Agassiz Cup, awarded annually to the men's "A" victor, for the fifth time in six years. The win avenged a four-second defeat to Dunster House in last year's race...
Herbert Kuelzer and co-owner Susan Kuelzer popped a champagne cork in Tribe's Harvard Law School office yesterday after receiving news of the decision...
They did it by first building their business into three popular Phoenix-area restaurants called Garcia's and then selling out to Thomas Fleck, a founder of the California-based Cork 'N Cleaver chain, for $3 million in cash and notes in 1979. Fleck went public with Garcia's stock last year and has opened 14 new dining spots from San Diego to Des Moines since he bought the rights to the name. Garcia, 56, retired as chairman a year ago, but his wife, 53, still visits some kitchens and samples sauces...
Only hours before his arrest, De Lorean said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corp. that the money was in a U.S. bank, but neither receiver could confirm it. Said Cork: "Right at the bitter end I was receiving telexes saying the money was definitely available. We said, 'Fine, but let's see it in a bank account,' and that never transpired...