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There's a lot of stuff being written about Benny Parsons, who passed Tuesday after a brief fight with cancer. I really like Ed Hardin's column today:

It was here at North Carolina Motor Speedway in 1973 where Parsons went from an unknown taxi driver from Detroit to a legend in the making. When he died Tuesday, he was a legitimate voice of the South, a spokesman for a generation of sports fans who assumed no one else even knew they existed. Auto racing is now the fastest-growing sport in the world, and it's partly because of Benny Parsons.

Go read the whole thing.

Also: Tom Higgins shares a story here. Lee Spencer writes here and here.

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Clance' said:

Thanks for posting those links...it's been a sad couple of week's. I will miss Benny a lot. My husband was a huge Bobby Hamilton Jr. fan. Both of those men accomplished insurmountable odd's to get where they were.
Our prayer's go out ther families and to Kim and Kenny Wallace and their loved one's also.

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