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...White Sox took a 1-0 lead in the first inning with the help of a balk by Tom Bolton. With one out, Lance Johnson extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a single and Carlton Fisk walked.The runners advanced on Bolton's balk and FrankThomas hit a sacrifice...
Larry Andersen replaced Bolton with the basesloaded and uncorked a wild pitch on an 0-2 countto Fisk, enabling Guillen to score. But withrunners at first, Fisk struck out and Thomas fliedout
Lynch made Eraserhead at the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills, with financial help from his boyhood pal Jack Fisk (a talented production designer) and Fisk's wife, actress Sissy Spacek. Around him the first-time director gathered technicians and players he has used ever since: cinematographer Frederick Elmes, sound-effects ace Alan Splet and, as Eraserhead's high-haired Henry Spencer, actor Jack Nance. "It seemed like we were never going to finish the film," recalls Nance, who plays henpecked Pete Martell in Twin Peaks. "We had to scrap an awful lot, and we failed an awful...
After the Civil War, speculator Jim Fisk attempted to corner the gold market. The price escalated until President U.S. Grant stepped in and unloaded $4 million worth of Government gold certificates. The tactic worked, but prices on the stock exchange kept on plummeting for two years. The small investor, as always, suffered the most. But it was Fisk whose complaint entered history: "A fellow can't have a little innocent fun, without everyone raising a haloo and going wild...
Sure, there were a lot of good moments. It's funny, but whenever I think about the days when baseball was THE SPORT, so many details pop up. Like the smell of Glovolium, this magical oily-like substance that I used to rub on my Carlton Fisk catcher's mitt and then on my Jim LeFevebre (whoever he was) infielder's glove every day in February. I really don't know what the Glovolium did to my gloves; I just thought every major leaguer...