Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between the lower lip and gum). In many states, it is illegal to sell tobacco of any sort to minors, but the laws are difficult to enforce. Teenage boys, in particular, are turning to snuff in record numbers, inspired perhaps by TV ads featuring such athletic idols as Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox and former Dallas Cowboy Walt Garrison. The amount of snuff sold annually in the U.S. is up 60% since 1978. And while national figures on teenage use are not available, local surveys in Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Massachusetts suggest that between...
...major league baseball has changed profoundly since the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. In that contest between the Cincinnati Reds and the Red Sox, a game that is now consistently recalled as among the most exciting ever played, the Sox defeated the Reds when catcher Carlton Fisk hit a twelfth inning home run just inside the left field foul pole. The Reds won the series the next day in less dramatic fashion, and just a few weeks later the free agent was born, changing baseball forever...
...discussing major league baseball through the prism of the team he covers, the Red Sox. His first two chapters contrast the 1975 team, a group that seemed on the verge of establishing a New England dynasty, and the mediocre 1983 team--long since stripped of stars like Fred Lynn, Fisk, Rick Burleson and Cecil Cooper--which struggled to avoid last place. Gammons then traces the years between these two poles discussing in minute detail the course of each season, from both an athletic and business perspective. The argument is an important one; the free agent system has changed the sport...
...Carlton Fisk...
...forced them to blink. Indeed, just the fear of Pickens has sent energy giants scrambling to merge with one another. Says Joseph Fogg III of the investment banking firm Morgan Stanley: "You would have to go back to the past century, to people like Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, to find someone who has had an equivalent impact on a major American industry." Those two financiers reshaped U.S. railroads by forcing the consolidation of many different lines. Today Pickens is performing much the same feat in the energy industry...