Saturday, February 1, 2020

BACK TO BADGES

I spent three years covering the news for a radio station (WIBC) in Indianapolis, Indiana.


I used to say "we don't press our news", but never mind that.

The biggest event in Indianapolis is the annual 500 mile auto race and I covered stories at and around the track, which got me these bits of memorabilia.




The entire month of May is devoted to the race so we Running Dogs of the Media got to know and hang around (drink) with people like Mario Andretti, Al and Bobby Unser, A.J. Foyt and many others.

But my favorite story of the Indy 500 was the year I stayed up all night before race day, interviewing people outside the track.

I was interviewing a ticket scalper at one point and another guy came by and tried to sell his tickets to the scalper at an inflated price.

A scalper trying to scalp a scalper!

And that's Indy.