Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta, the Braves' new owner, a tough-minded, salty-tongued communications czar and yachtsman named Ted Turner, signed up the game's most sought-after right arm in a reported $1 million deal engineered by-of all people-a fan who took the negotiating authority upon himself. With one stroke of the pen, the moribund Braves had a bright new look. The signee was a handsome, 30-year-old, bubble-gum-chewing pitcher named Andy Messersmith, a free spirit and free agent whose victorious legal battle against baseball's "reserve clause" was reshaping the entire sport...
...true "Saturday Night" fan will remember that Franken and Davis appeared on the show that was guest-hosted by Eliot Gould. They were dressed as Indians--Franken was an interviewer, and Davis was the head of the Bureau of White Man Affairs. The Indians had defeated white forces and won the West, and the whites were in the minority. Davis told Franken that the whites were occupying Wounded Stench, but that white men preferred to call it Jersey City. And Davis also revealed a white idiosyncrasy: they loved intertribal jokes, especially about the greasy Italian tribe...
...Ching Fan, a graduate student from Taiwan, last night told the audience that Huang had aroused his suspicion on several occasions by expressing an interest in attending anti-Nationalist Chinese government rallies with Fan...
Said I'm your biggest fan...
...Excuse me, sir, but this is White Sox country, and you have a Red Sox hat on. You must be a Boston fan...