Forrest Haskell

Born in downtown Detroit in the shadow of the Tiger's Baseball Stadium and to an immigrant mother and on the wrong side of the tracks.  Forrest spent his young life as well as most of his teenage years involved with his dad in the illegal rackets, mainly booking horses and loan sharking and the numbers.  He managed to graduate from Northwestern High School at the early age of 16.  A few years later, he was drafted into the US Army and spent over two years as a military policeman and trainee helicopter pilot in Germany.  A few months after his discharge from the military, he met a green-eyed beauty and not wasting any time got her to marry him after a three-month whirlwind courtship.  As luck would have it, upon answering a newspaper ad to sell copy machines for the 3-M company he got the job and it changed his life for the better.  Haskell stayed in the copy machine business for over thirty years and being the salesman he was became very successful as an owner of several companies related to the office machine and leasing business. 
 
Wanting to try something new, he sold all his offices to a large company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, moved to Texas and went into the fast lube industry.  A few years later when Jiffy Lube bought out all its dealers, Haskell sold out again.  This time he and his son spend most of their time racing offshore powerboats on the national circuit.  When people would ask him what he did in previous years and he would tell his life story they would always say, "Man!  Why don't you write a book?"  So, he did, its entitled "12th and McGraw," a true story that chronicles life with his gun-toting strange dad.

Haskell lives near Dallas, Texas with his wife, has four children and eight grandchildren plays a lot of tennis and enjoys writing.