Word: cy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they are likely to encounter far more than the simple lures of sportsmen who gladly pay up to $3,000 a week for riverbank angling rights. The fish must also run an illicit gauntlet of nets, gaffs, snares, spears, dynamite, electric shocks, even poison, believed to be cy-mag, a cyanide-based white powder that sucks the oxygen out of the water and turns every asphyxiated fish belly up within a two-mile area. Reaching river's end after such an ordeal, male salmon are probably too pooped to papa...
Neither Jim Palmer, 37, nor Tom Seaver, 38, will likely scale 300 victories, but they were dominant pitchers in their leagues and have three Cy Young Awards apiece to show it. Each also possesses more than a touch of glamour. A section of Palmer's adolescence was spent residing in the Los Angeles movie community, Beverly Hills, where his habit was to rise early hoping to observe Janet Leigh picking up the paper in her pink peignoir. Now Palmer can be seen in his underwear on billboards, but seldom in uniform on a mound. Pestered by various miseries, Palmer...
...Only four pitchers have won 200 games by age 30. Three--Christy Mathewson, Cy Young, and Walter Johnson--are in the Hall of Fame, but the fourth is still ineligible, since he passed the barrier in 1976. Can you name...
...Gaylord Perry's many accomplishments include being the only pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues. Who is the only modern pitcher besides Perry to win 100 games in each league? And who is the only man, apart from Nolan Ryan, to throw a no-hitter in each league? Five points each...
...years the dimpled dumplings known as the Campbell's Soup kids have been among the most familiar and successful symbols in advertising. When the kids first appeared in posters on New York City trolley cars, Cy Young was on the mound for the Boston Somersets (now the Red Sox) and Enrico Caruso was winding up his first American opera season. Cherubic and definitely chubby, the kids have always conveyed the message that children raised on "M'm! M'm! Good!" Campbell's soups will grow up healthy and happy...