Buddy Baker, 74, lost to a "huge tumour" in his lung. Aypee <http://racing.ap.org/article/buddy-baker-nascars-gentle-giant-dies-74-cancer> (link)
The veteran of 30+ years in NASCAR's 'Cup' series hardly reached the success level of those he was hoping to join this year in the sanction's Hall of Fame (including his father Buck), though Daytona in 1980 and '83 was among his conquests, along with three Coke 600s in his hometown of Charlotte... afterward he was a lovable, knowledgeable analyst with TNN and CBS (including the Eye's last-known NASCAR event, a 2000 truck race in Nazareth, PA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NzhTg5mR28> ['toob]*), and spent his last years as a nighttime host at SiriusXM's NASCAR channel. B *I've been to a Naz. truck race, and want to say it was this one... -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
