This is my wife's favorite excerpt from my book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway." Autographed copies available at the link.
1911 Indianapolis 500 champ Ray Harroun is alive again in the new book, "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," (
Howard Kroplick, the preeminent historian on all things William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Cup International Race, has uncovered a great free resource for researching news clips. This Suffolk County newspaper archive is chocked full of articles from the great newspapers of Long Island, New York, past and present.