TOP 49ERS SPECIAL SECTION
Epic Earnings
Alaska Business has been publishing a Top 49ers list since 1985, our first year of operation, though at the time the list was branded as “The New 49ers.” Cover design by Judy Clark Hartwig
Decades of Top 49er history By Tasha Anderson General Manager Jason Martin crashed his way into my office about a fortnight ago, frothing at the mouth and waving a sheaf of printed spreadsheets. “Anderson!” he spluttered, slamming his hammy fists on my desk, knocking pens and crusty coffee cups onto the floor. “What in tarnation is going on here?” 44 | October 2019
Wiping some spittle off my face, I took a quick peek at the papers still crushed in his grasp, praying to catch a glance of a word or a number I could extrapolate into an answer that might send him packing. “Top 49ers” and “1998” flashed in my view, and I quickly stifled a sigh of relief. “Of course, Mr. Martin,” I said,
sweet as grandma’s cookies. “That’s historic Top 49ers data.” “Obviously!” he bellowed, turning red in the face and testing the tensile strength of his necktie. “Why’s it in the vault?” Well, because you put it in the vault, I thought. “I have no idea, sir,” I said.
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