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Word: fisk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides his home run, Yaz threw out a runner from left field and scored the deciding run when he doubled in the sixth inning against the A's ace reliever, Rollie Fingers, and then raced home on Carlton Fisk's line-drive single to center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Dump Oakland, 6-3, Lead in Playoff Series, 2-0 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...just to haul them back into the sea of their passion for the 1975 season, when most is forgotten and the boys are a bunch of heros again. That Freddy Lynn, by god, he's a natural--haven't seen a swing like that since Ted Williams...and Pudge Fisk is back and better than ever. The passion is for a pennant and in Fenway a lot of Boston gets together and tries to find something in their city they don't have to hate each other about. This energy focused on 27 men, technically: technically because some of these...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Introducing...the Boston Red Sox | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

...Carlton Fisk, Boston's star-crossed catcher, is back again-and a great hometown favorite because of his New Hampshire background (sometimes the hometown is no favorite of his-the other day he gave the finger to booing fans, but who can blame him? The press can and did, actually). Fisk was Rookie of the Year in 1972, but a groin injury, a viciously torn cartilage and a broken arm have kept him in the game sporadically until a few weeks ago. Since then he's been terrific, but every time a runner comes hustling home with spikes high...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Introducing...the Boston Red Sox | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

DuBois got his first taste of the barriers that existed for blacks in America when he attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The experience of Jim Crow laws--being forced to ride in segregated transportation, eat in separate dining facilities, denied the right to vote--left DuBois with a sense of the "absolute division of the universe into black and white...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: W.E.B. DuBois: Godfather of an Institute | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...this reason, DuBois was not unhappy at Harvard. His stay at Fisk had made him content to fraternize with his own race, in isolation from whites, a situation which he thought might not have satisfied him if he had come directly from Great Barrington. As it was he was interested only in the University's libraries and the tutelage of its teachers. For his social life he depended primarily upon the black community of Boston...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: W.E.B. DuBois: Godfather of an Institute | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

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