The current Sports Illustrated has a great story about Ty Cobb, Nap Lajoie and the race for the 1910 batting title, and how Hugh Chalmers of car fame hotted up the season with the promise of a Chalmers 30 to the batting champion. Read it. Done? So the long and short is that both ended […]
California’s vintage car extravaganza collectively known as Monterey is this weekend, and Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car editor Dave LaChance and I are planning to soak up of much of it as possible. One of our must-see stops is this year’s RM Auction at this location, which has expanded from its traditional two-day event to […]
Lewis Strang in a Thomas at the French Grand Prix, 1908
Many men participated in the dawn of organized motor racing in the US, and many lived hard and died young. Lewis P. Strang stands shoulder to shoulder with Louis Disbrow, Barney Oldham, Ralph De Palma, David Bruce-Brown, Louis Chevrolet and other titans of the era, […]