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  • Kevin Fitzsimmons, an analyst with Sandler O'Neill & Partners, said regional banks would likely have to raise at least 50 cents for every TARP dollar received, a hurdle for banks still losing money or just beginning return to profitability.

    A Bank Bailout Some Won't Exit Deborah Solomon 2010

  • Because of Harvard's position in today's college pyramid, Fitzsimmons is the most influential person in American college admissions.

    The Early-Decision Racket 2001

  • Because of Harvard's position in today's college pyramid, Fitzsimmons is the most influential person in American college admissions.

    The Early-Decision Racket 2001

  • Officials placed him in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver, where he was put in a ward by himself to keep him from hurting someone else.

    Gostas, Theodore W. 1968

  • In the first of his major escapes, Gardner broke out of a Mexican jail and later became a prizefighter under the name Young Fitzsimmons.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By CASEY MCNERTHNEY / SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF 2011

  • This fall at the annual meeting of the 11,000-member National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), the doubts of admissions directors such as Fitzsimmons took center stage.

    Nicolaus Mills: College Board Crisis 2009

  • Nearly twenty years later, John J. Ward wrote of Fred Fitzsimmons, “In fact, some batters refer to Fitzsimmons’ knuckle ball as a ‘dry spitter.’”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Nearly twenty years later, John J. Ward wrote of Fred Fitzsimmons, “In fact, some batters refer to Fitzsimmons’ knuckle ball as a ‘dry spitter.’”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Commentary: From Fitzsimmons’ description, and Harry Danning calling Fitzsimmons’ best pitch a “knuckle-curveball,” we might reasonably assume that Fitzsimmons’ knuckleball was actually the pitch later thrown by Burt Hooton and called the “knuckle curve.”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Commentary: From Fitzsimmons’ description, and Harry Danning calling Fitzsimmons’ best pitch a “knuckle-curveball,” we might reasonably assume that Fitzsimmons’ knuckleball was actually the pitch later thrown by Burt Hooton and called the “knuckle curve.”

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

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