My Greatest Day in NASCAR: The Legends of Auto Racing Recount Their Greatest Moments (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "Well, my day, I have no memory of.... My greatest day would have had to have been the 1988 Daytona 500, which I won for..." (more)
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Amazon.com Review

What's your greatest NASCAR memory? Bob McCullough (My Greatest Day in Baseball) posed that question to 47 drivers, owners, crew chiefs, and NASCAR officials--from Bobby Allison to Smokey Yunick--during the 1999 season. For Jeff Gordon, the answer was recent history: winning the 1999 Daytona 500 on Valentine's Day. "King" Richard Petty had to reach a bit farther back--to the 1984 win at the Firecracker 400 with then-President Reagan watching in the stands. Cale Yarborough went even further back: remembering his first career victory, the 1968 Southern 500 in Darlington--just 15 miles from where he was born and raised. No matter the vintage, the stories offer up an intimate perspective on the world's fastest-growing sport. "Awesome Bill from Dawsonville" Elliott, Dale and Ned Jarrett, Benny and Phil Parsons, Bobby and Terry Labonte, Bobby and Donny Allison--all the greats of stock-car racing are here. My Greatest Day in NASCAR is essential reading for NASCAR fans. --M. Stein

From Library Journal

Here McCullough collects 41 interviews with personalities involved in some way with NASCAR stock car racing; in each, he asked his interviewee (mostly drivers--the famous and not so famous) to recall his most memorable day in the sport. As is common with oral accounts, the quality of content is uneven; some accounts read very well, while others ramble or assume a knowledge of events that readers may not know. Collectively, however, the book offers a sense of the thrill of achievement--and some accounts evoke a particularly poignant moment, like Ned Jarrett's television broadcast of his son's victory in the Daytona 500. This is not a book for non-fans trying to understand the sport but for those who are already hooked; it's a book for people who are already fans--although disappointingly, a few notables, whose voices fans would want to hear (like Richard Petty), are absent from these pages. Not a necessary purchase, this book is appropriate for public libraries.
-David B. Van De Streek, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., York
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (April 22, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312252544
• ISBN-13: 978-0312252540
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,950,532 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read!, July 27, 2001

By A Customer

This book is great! It tells of memories from great drivers. I highly recommed this book!! Five stars all the way!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Thumbs Down, June 11, 2002

By A Customer

This is the worst book I have ever read on NASCAR. It is full of inaccuracies and misspelled words. For example, oil dry is referred to as "oil drop", sprint cars are referred to as "spring cars", etc. The chapter on John Andretti's greatest day in NASCAR focuses on his Indy 500 experience. The Ralph Moody chapter is especially hard to follow as it appears that he author transcribed a taped interview without any editing. It would have been helpful if this book was edited by a knowledgeable racing writer so as not to insult racing fans with a poor attempt at what could have been a great book.