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1910 T210 Old Mill Joe Jackson

Starting Bid - $25,000, Sold For - $199,750

Graded VG+ 3.5 by PSA. Highest-graded non-qualified example by PSA! Presented is an extremely attractive (and, for this card, extremely high grade) example of one of baseball-card collecting's most legendary icons: The 1910 T210 Old Mill Tobacco card of Joe Jackson.

This extraordinary card is one of the great prizes that has been locked away for decades in the collection of one of the hobby's great pioneer collectors (who passed away in 2009). It has long been known to exist but has never before been seen publicly or at auction. It is being offered directly by his family. This card is one of vintage-card collecting's greatest highlights. It is also the highlight of an extraordinary complete T210 Old Mill set (Series 1 through 8) that was assembled over a period of many years, and is being offered by series in this auction (with the exception of Joe Jackson and Casey Stengel, which are offered separately).

The T210 Old Mill Joe Jackson is one of those cards that anyone who really looks at the history of cards, and understands what has been issued for all players, will appreciate as one of the most fascinating and noteworthy baseball cards ever issued. It is the only tobacco card of Joe Jackson, and one of the very few cards of Jackson ever issued. This rare Old Mill card features Jackson as a minor leaguer with New Orleans in 1910. This is not, in fact, Jackson's rookie card, as he appears in the 1909 E90-1 American Caramel series with the Philadelphia Athletics. Jackson played a total of ten games with the A's in 1908 and 1909. He spent the majority of 1909 in the minors and started the 1910 season in New Orleans. Mack traded him to Cleveland in the middle of the 1910 season with the provision that he would not report until his New Orleans season was over. The T210 set is comprised of eight different series, each representing a different minor league. With 640 players, it is the largest tobacco set of the twentieth century and is immediately identifiable due to its distinctive red borders. Jackson is part of "Series 8" which features Southern Leaguers, and which happens to be the rarest series of the T210 Old Mill set. Understandably, Joe Jackson is by far the key card in the set. Fewer than ten Joe Jackson Old Mill cards are known to exist and it is without question one of his rarest and most sought after cards.

This is an incredible T210 Joe Jackson. In the small universe of T210 Joe Jackson cards, this may be the second finest of all examples known. As is almost always the case with these red-bordered cards, there is some wear to the red borders, mostly in the corners and along the top edge. The wear to the edges is very minor, and is far less than normally found with T210s. The card has no creases (only a tiny, insignificant wrinkle in the lower right corner of the reverse visible under magnification, literally of no consequence). Extremely well centered, with a bright, clean, crisp image, and strong printing to the advertisement on the reverse. This card features a tremendous photographic image of a young Joe Jackson, looking forward to an exciting Major League career. The contrast and sharp detail in the photo are extraordinary. Every button, every line on his cap, even the detail of the patch on his sleeve is crisp and flawlessly clear. The reverse has very minor soiling. This is an amazing example, easily one of the finest in existence of perhaps as few as ten known, of one of card collecting's rarest and most desirable cards, featuring the legendary Joe Jackson as a minor leaguer early in his baseball career. Reserve $25,000. Estimate $50,000+. SOLD FOR $199,750

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Spanish Asparagus Salad

Serves 4

16 spears fresh green asparagus, trimmed
Ortiz white tuna  - small amount for each plate
2 Tbsp El Navarrico pimiento slices
2 Tbsp Colonna lemon infused EVO
1 Tbsp Forum chardonnay vinegar
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Blanch the asparagus in salted boiling water for a few minutes. Plunge into iced water to stop the cooking and keep the colour green.
Arrange the asparagus, tuna and piquillo pimientos on a serving platter and dress with the vinegar and oil. Season.

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Friday, January 21, 2011

A Portrait of Self

I want to remember this day. I want to remember this bedhead in bright red with dark roots and makeupless face and wearing all of my spring clothes in the middle of this Michigan winter. Putting on her amazing springtide earrings, and a favorite necklace given to me by my mama years ago by Mati Rose. I put it on when I most need it. I need it today. Bright colors on one side and on the other it says "There is nothing wrong with you." If I can't hear anyone actually say it to me, I need to wear it close to my heart.
I have painted myself with color the brightest I have. Red shoes, green pants, blue shirt bright green kids still make comments even after almost two years of it.  I come from literally years of wearing all black...a throwback from working at Eileen Fisher and living in a Seattle suburb years ago. I guess I thought it was easier and more "chic". It was. I desperately wanted to be chic. But that was then. I'm not worried about "chic" anymore. Now I paint myself in layers of color whenever I can. I don't much care anymore even if it really "matches". It lifts me. It was my 40th year resolution and I've kept it going. Quite possibly the only resolution I've ever kept.
Yes, I want to remember this day. The sounds of my little boy playing in the other room. Patty Griffin station playing on Pandora. Jewelry waiting to be finished on the table.
Hope in my heart.
And the feeling that there is really nothing wrong with me. Sometimes I allow others to make me feel terribly terribly flawed. I'll be 42 soon. I like myself. I heard about this revelation when I was 30. How when you turn 40 things change. They have. I've let go of some stuff...some clutter in my heart. I like the light in my eyes and the new big wrinkle in the corner of my left eye that I discovered the other day. (I don't spend much time in the mirror, so it is always a surprise when I really look!) I do, however have issues with my chin. Still trying to make peace with that......
uh-um but anyway, what do you do when you need to be lifted?
Aside from wearing lots of color, I love a big  cup of double-spice Chai tea and take maybe take in the scent and sight of lemons. (I keep lemon oil on my table and sniff it...sometimes even putting a dab under my nose and inhale deeply) I prefer lemons to fresh flowers (they're cheaper too.) Sometimes I keep one or two on my table to feel and scratch and sniff until they loose their lemony-ness.
and I read this poem called The Journey by Mary Oliver that I want to share with you:

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.


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Deflationary Hurricanes to Hit U.S. and U.K.

By: Mike Shedlock | Mon, Jun 30, 2008
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Congratulations (of sorts) go to the UK as British household debt is highest in history.

British households are now more indebted than those of any other major country in recorded history, it has emerged.

Families in the UK now owe a record 173pc of their incomes in debts, official figures have shown. The ratio of debt to income is higher than any other country in the Group of Seven leading industrialised economies, and is sharply higher than the 129pc of incomes it was five years ago.

Michael Saunders of Citigroup warned that - at 173pc of household incomes - the debt burden is higher even than Japan's when it peaked in 1990, before more than a decade of deflation. Philip Shaw of Investec said: "Although we take the view that the economy will avoid a recession, our confidence is ebbing."

Avoid A Recession?

It will be hard for the US and UK to avoid a depression.

What started as a tropical storm called "Subprime" has intensified in magnitude to engulf Alt-A, HELOCs, credit cards, commercial real estate, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, and the stock market, just as baby boomers are headed for retirement.

If you prefer, you can think of this as Many Hurricanes, Many Eyes.

Barclays Warns Of Financial Storm

Most do not even understand the nature of the storm that is about to hit. Barclays is right at the top of the list. Please consider Barclays warns of a financial storm as Federal Reserve's credibility crumbles.

Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its credibility fall "below zero".

"We're in a nasty environment," said Tim Bond, the bank's chief equity strategist. "There is an inflation shock underway. This is going to be very negative for financial assets. We are going into tortoise mood and are retreating into our shell. Investors will do well if they can preserve their wealth."

Barclays Capital said in its closely-watched Global Outlook that US headline inflation would hit 5.5pc by August and the Fed will have to raise interest rates six times by the end of next year to prevent a wage-spiral. If it hesitates, the bond markets will take matters into their own hands. "This is the first test for central banks in 30 years and they have fluffed it. They have zero credibility, and the Fed is negative if that's possible. It has lost all credibility," said Mr Bond.

No Wage Price Spiral

Wage price spirals happen when corporations get into bidding wars over employees, not when they are shoving them out the door by the hundreds of thousands. Mr. Bond must be reporting from Bizarro World. The odds of a wage price spiral in the US are essentially zero as credit is drying up and overcapacity is everywhere you look. Massive Government and Private Sector Job Cuts Are Coming.

This is not Bizarro World, nor it is 1970.

If Barclays is betting on six interest rates hikes in the US with its own money it will likely get carted out in a coffin. Property values are crashing, unemployment is rising, wages are falling, global wage arbitrage is king, and most importantly Peak Credit Has Arrived.

It is impossible to get inflation out of that mix. Berananke could cut interest rates to zero tomorrow and it would not cause inflation, at least as properly defined: a net expansion of money and credit. Banks are strapped for cash. They cannot lend. Businesses do not want to borrow. There is overcapacity everywhere. The Shopping Center Economic Model Is History.

I struggle to see how anyone can get inflation out of that mix. Last Thursday when the stock markets were in a freefall, I asked Is The Inflation Scare Over Yet? Well, I guess it's not.

Fed Has Lost Credibility

However, I will grant Mr. Bond one thing. "The Fed has lost all credibility." I discussed that idea in Things That Have Not Yet Happened in response to Bernanke's absurd claim "Danger of downturn appears to have waned."

Bernanke made that statement on June 9th. On June 26, Bernanke was openly soliciting private equity firms to invest in banks. I discussed this in Fed Looking To Bend Rules To Aid Banks.

Crack-Up Boom In Asia

Actually, I see another statement from Mr. Bond that I agree with, and it is an important one: "Inflation is out of control in Asia. Vietnam has already blown up."

Inflation is indeed out of control in Asia, notably China, India, and Vietnam. That inflation stems from Asia central bankers printing local currency to buy US dollars, in an attempt to keep their export machines going.

Bernanke foolishly calls this a savings glut. Printing money to buy dollars does not constitute savings. It is amazing that a Fed governor does not understand this simple truth.

Besides, it is virtually impossible to have "too much savings". The construct does not even exist!

Peak oil, in conjunction with a crack up inflationary boom in China is masking deflation in the US and pending deflation in the UK. Those focused on rising energy and food prices are missing the boat.

However, I suspect China is going to slam on the brakes after the Olympics. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Index sure acts as if something is coming down the pike.

$SSEC Weekly Chart

Who's In Control?

Ben Bernake at the Fed, Mervyn King at the Bank of England, and Jean-Claude Trichet at the ECB are not in control of what is about to happen. When it comes to commodity prices,peak oil and China's willingness to allow its economy to overheat are going to be the driving forces. Trichet can hike all he wants and it will not matter much to the price of oil. However, it may crush individual economies in the EU.

This does not mean hiking is wrong (although it likely is), it simply means that hiking to rein in gasoline and food prices, two rather inelastic needs, is beyond silly.

Implications of Peak Credit

When it comes to the collapse in credit, the above Central Banks are powerless to do a thing about it. This is to be expected now that we are on the backside of Peak Credit.

The saturation point has been reached. It took decades but we have finally arrived. None of the financial engineering jobs that fueled this credit boom will ever be needed again. SIVs, Conduits, Toggle Bonds, Covenant Lite loans are all dead for years, more likely decades to come. Add to that liar loans, Pay Option Arms, insane leverage, and numerous other ridiculous lending arrangements. And if those things are not coming back, we do not need Wall Street shills to securitize that garbage and pitch it to unsuspecting suckers.

In addition to financial engineering jobs, there was a boom in commercial real estate, home depots, remodeling companies, landscaping, furniture, appliances, plumbing, heating, air conditioning, restaurants, and even things like grass seed.

There is no source of jobs to replace what has been lost and what will be lost. Discretionary spending is dead. Boomers about to retire are about to get religion. Sadly, it's too late. Savings they thought they had in their house, have now vanished into thin air. It was all a mirage in the first place, but mountains of credit has been extended on the basis of that mirage. Trillions of dollars of imagined wealth has gone up in smoke. Trillions of dollars more are about to.

Deflation Has Set In

It is amusing that in the face of this carnage, many are still screaming inflation, stagflation, or even hyperinflation simply because food and energy prices are rising. Deflation is here and now in the US. Deflation is knocking on the door of the UK and Eurozone. And there is nothing that can be done about it.

Can The Fed Print Its Way Out?

Some will insist that I am wrong, that the Fed can print. Well the Fed can print, but the Fed cannot spend. In addition, the Fed cannot give money away, nor would the Fed even if it could. Finally, the Fed cannot force banks to lend or businesses or consumers to borrow.

Bank credit is contracting with the Fed Funds rate at 2%. Bank credit would not be going much of anywhere even at 0% in my estimation. The reason is simple: banks are insolvent!

The Fed is like the powerless man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. Once peak credit sets in, all the Fed can do is bluff. The notion of a helicopter drop is pure nonsense.

What About A Crack-Up Boom?

We had a crack-up-boom. What else can you call the financial engineering that went with SIVs, Conduits, Toggle Bonds, Covenant Lite loans, Pay Option ARMs, etc., etc? That crack-up-boom is over. And just like every credit boom in history, the backside, once the credit boom ends is deflation. Previous examples include Tulip Mania, the South Sea Bubble, John Law Mississippi scheme, the Great Depression, and the property bust in Japan.

Weimar Germany was not a credit boom, but an example of hyperinflation caused by massive printing to pay for war reparations. Zimbabwe is another example of hyperinflation caused by printing.

What About Congress?

Congress, unlike the Fed, can indeed spend money it does not have. They have already done so with an ill-advised stimulus package. There will indeed be more stimulus packages just as there was in Japan. However, nothing can match the sheer number of jobs created in the housing and commercial real estate booms. And nothing can replace the destruction of wealth that is now taking place in housing and the equity markets.

Attitudes Lead The Way

It took nearly 80 years for people to get as reckless as they did in 1929. 80 years! Few are still alive that went through the great depression. That is the nature of the game. People have to forget what a depression is like to bring about the conditions that cause them. And they did. And they made the same mistakes over again, except larger.

The madness of crowds, however, can only go so far. A significant reversal is now underway. The secular peak in consumption has been reached. A reversal in attitudes towards consumption started with houses, but it’s spreading to cars, boats, and even Starbucks coffee. It will take a long time for attitudes to get back to equilibrium. And attitudes, like pendulums, will not stop at equilibrium once they get there.

The odds of a significant bout of inflation now are about the same as they were in 1929. Next to none. History is about to repeat.

Mike Shedlock

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Brian Redman

Brian Redman, sports car legend and former F1 racer is the latest online driving instructor for

Redman was one of the leading sports car racers of his generation, winning the 1970 Targa Florio, the 12 Hours of Sebring (twice) and the Daytona 24 hours (three times).

Redman had a short spell in F1, competing in 12 grands prix between 1968 and 1974. He achieved a third place podium in his first ever F1 grand prix, and went on to finish an impressive fifth in the rain at the 1972 Monaco GP.

Redman has recently published his racing autobiography, entitled ‘Brian Redman: Daring Drivers, Deadly Tracks’. The 300-page book, published by Evro Publishing, covers the 1965-1975 seasons and offers a riveting account of Redman’s racing career.

Sports car legend & former F1 driver

Brian Redman answers your questions!

  1. If the odds of dying in a race-car were one-in-three during your early career, what made you continue racing?

    - Jackie Toms
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    • I was asked to leave school at 16 – “we can’t teach you anything,” they said – in 1958 and then when I was 21 my maternal grand-father died. I bought his business, which made mop-heads, the things you clean the floor with, for $1,000, from my mother. We manufactured them in Burnley, Lancashire and I delivered them in my Morris 1000 “Woody” all over the north of England and the southern part of Scotland, driving like a madman.
      I fitted the Morris with a Shorrock super-charger, harder brake linings, anti-roll bar front and rear, and an anti-tramp bracket at the back – but no seat belts or roll-cage of course!
      I thought I’d better get off the road before I killed myself, or worse, someone else! I turned professional in 1967 when a friend, David Bridges, offered me $60 a week, guaranteed for a year, with a car and a mechanic. By 1968 I was driving a Ford GT40 for John Wyer Gulf, with Jacky Ickx, and a Cooper F1 car.
      So, the short answer is I continued racing because at last I’d found something I could do reasonably well and at the same time, earn a living!

      SAFEisFAST video: Getting Started
  2. Who was the toughest competitor you ever raced against? - Thomas May
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    • In long-distance racing I was lucky to drive with two of the best drivers in the world, Jacky Ickx in the GT40 and Ferrari 312PB and Jo Siffert in Porsche 908s and 917s.
      However, although I was lucky enough to enjoy a good deal of success in endurance racing, I enjoyed the accuracy and vision more in single-seaters. Especially driving the Carl Haas/Jim Hall Lola T330/332 F5000s.
      When USAC joined with the SCCA in 1974, a sudden influx of excellent USAC drivers appeared in F5000. Mario Andretti, the Unser brothers, Gordon Johncock, Johnny Rutherford and others.
      I have to say, that Mario was my toughest competitor during 1974-75, before he went Formula One. We raced hard and clean for those two years and never touched wheels or had a bad word. Although, Mario’s Vels Parnelli team took away my chief mechanic, Jim Chapman, at the end of the 1973 season, and we had a superb crew, led from the front by Jim Hall. I’m sure Mario would agree that it was the superb reliability of our car that allowed me to win the F5000 Championships!
  3. Who was your greatest overall driver of the 1960s and 1970s? - Greg Jones
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    • When I started racing in the “Woody” in 1959, a certain young Scottish sheep farmer, Jim Clark by name, was winning local races in what appeared to be an effortless fashion. Later, in 1967, we raced in Formula 2 together. Indeed, I learnt two valuable lessons from Jim:
      1:  When I asked if he exercised, he replied: “Och aye laddie – I lift my leg to get into bed at night.” I’ve followed his advice ever since.
      2:  In those far-off days, no one had airplanes and there were few commercial flights. So, every Sunday evening after a race there would be celebratory parties and dinners. On one such evening, in Barcelona, we were in a pleasant restaurant, with the wine and conversation flowing nicely. After the main course was finished, Jim took his knife, balanced a pat of butter on it and gave it powerful flick. I watched with interest as it landed on the nose of an attractive young lady. Instantly, my first, but by no means last, food fight was started!
  4. What was the difference between Ferrari and Porsche in the ways the teams were run when you raced for them? - Nick Mannion
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    • Although I’d driven one Formula 2 race for Ferrari in 1968, it was 1972 with the 312PB before I had a regular drive. As it happened, the team manager, Peter Schetty, was Swiss and an excellent former driver in his own right. So we had none of the chaotic pit stops that Ferrari was well known for.
      In 1971 Ferrari concentrated on the 312PB deserting the 512, which was in its last year of eligibility. Although leading races and setting fastest laps, it didn’t win until November when Clay Regazzoni and I won the Kyalami Nine Hour race. In 1972, it won every race except Le Mans, where Ferrari didn’t go because of concerns about the reliability of the three litre F1-based engine.
      In 1969, when I drove 908s for the Porsche factory team, it was the first time, because of the change in engine size regulations, that Porsche had a chance to win the manufacturers’ championship, which they did. In the early races, Porsche ran five cars, with ten drivers. Six Germans, three English (Vic Elford, Ricahrd Attwood, and I) and one Swiss (Jo Siffert). All this was managed by another excellent Swiss driver and manager, Rico Steinemann.
      In 1970 the renowned team owner and manager, John Wyer, took over the running of the official Porsche 917s and 908/03s (built only for the Nurburgring and Targa Florio).
      So the short answer to the question is, there wasn’t much difference in the way the teams were run!
  5. Racing has made some amazing improvements in driver safety in recent years and you raced throughout the period. How did it all come about? - George Thompson
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    • Yes indeed. In my first year in F1 with Cooper, half the drivers didn’t even wear seat-belts. They would rather be thrown out, or have the ability to jump, in case of fire, which was all too common in those days. I was in six fires in a four-year period, between 1968 and 1972.
      It was, of course, Sir Jackie Stewart who started the safety campaign after he was trapped partially upside down, with fuel flowing over him after he aquaplaned off the track at the notorious Masta Kink during the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. Jackie was trapped in the car,
      and was eventually released by BRM team-mates Graham Hill and Bob Bondurant who had also aquaplaned off but with less serious results. They had difficulty releasing the steering wheel and did so by borrowing tools from a spectator. There was no fire truck and no ambulance.
      The Chairman of BRM, Louis Stanley, was a larger-than-life character, full of pretension and bombast. Disliked by nearly everyone, he never-the-less
      was a huge supporter of greater safety in motor-racing, helping to supply a mobile hospital and safety services. I would imagine Fernando Alonso is very grateful for Jackie Stewart and Louis Stanley’s efforts!

      SAFEisFast video: The Evolution of Safety
  6. What were the greatest moments of your career that you picked out for your new book? - Adam Smyth
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    • With my co-writer Jim Mullen, we decided to pick out certain significant moments like Spa, Daytona, Le Mans, the Targa Florio, F5000, 2-litre etc, because we wanted the book to ‘flow’ nicely, without too much painful detail! I have been very fortunate to have raced in a very interesting era, to have driven some incredible race cars and to have survived some very bad accidents. Mark Hughes, the editor, has done a wonderful job of putting everything together with a superb selection of over 300 photographs – or so I’m told, I haven’t actually counted them!
  7. What would you say is the best thing that you have learned throughout your driving career? - Marc Cohn
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    • It’s probably to never give up your pursuit of a goal.
      Many, many times I have been in the depths of despair. One example was my stupid retirement to South Africa at the end of 1970 that lasted only four months.
      I’d retired from the best team in endurance racing, John Wyer Gulf Porsche, and the driver who took my place, Derek Bell, never looked back!
      The accident at Spa in 1968 was another. I’d just reached the top, and in an instant was at the bottom again!
      Plus there was the fire on the Targa Florio when I stood-in for Derek as he’d never done it and Siffert and I had won the year before.
      Another example was the neck-breaking accident at St. Jovite in 1977 when my new Lola T333 single-seat Can-Am took off after I lowered the front wing by a quarter of an inch. That broke my neck, C1, left shoulder, sternum and ribs, and the ambulance blew a tire on the way to hospital. When my wife, Marion, arrived from England the next day, the front page of the Montreal paper showed the drivers working on the wheel, me in the back not looking too good. The headline ran: “Redman est Mort (Redman’s Death)”. It’s all in the book!
  8. For the endurance races, which was your favourite track? And what was it like to race at Spa? - Anonymous
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    • Well, Spa was my favourite – but only after the race! When I first raced there in 1966 in a Ford GT40, there were no barriers, just trees and it was so fast. Although I’d been driving a Lola T70 Can-Am car in the U.K. and thought I could drive anything, anywhere, I almost retired from racing at the end of the first day of practice. Sir Jackie Stewart has offered his opinion that the Nurburgring was the most difficult track. Of course, with 160 odd turns, over hill and down dale, for 14.5 miles sometimes with changing weather conditions, it is difficult, but it doesn’t have the sheer, unrelenting speed of Spa.
      In 1970, in the Porsche 917K, we approached the Masta Kink at 214mph, with the Kink itself being taken at around 180mph. The race average, including pits stops, was 149 mph and the fastest lap was over 160mph. I managed to win five times at Spa, and three times at the Nurburgring.
  9. How would you define the ‘limit’ of a car on a given track on a given day? - Graham
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    • I suppose the ‘limit’ is when you lose control completely! Racing is very much a game of ‘balance’, so that wherever you are, rain or shine, you want the car to be as predictable as possible with not too much oversteer or too much understeer (push).

      SAFEisFAST video: The Perfect Lap
  10. Was the Porsche 935 the scariest car you drove? If not, which one? - Wayne Mausbach
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    • The 935 wasn’t particularly scary, it wasn’t the easiest of cars to drive as it had quite a bit of “push” until you were up to full racing speed. Also, there was noticeable throttle-lag, so it was difficult to balance the car in the corners using the throttle as you would with a normally aspirated race car. The scariest was Probably the original 917 in 1969. Built by Porsche in a big hurry, it was based on the 3-litre 908, but with four more cylinders making it 4.5-litre.
      As mentioned earlier there were 10 factory drivers, so when Porsche called me in March 1969 to come and test the new 917, I thought why do they want me, when they have six German drivers nearby? I said I’d call them back, then rang my co-driver Jo Siffert in Switzerland and asked if he’d driven the 917. His reply convinced me and I was unable to go. “Breean, we let ze others find out what breaks first!”
  11. What is some advice you would give to a younger racer like myself (22) towards progressing their career?  - Justin Casey
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    • Well, it’s important to get experience and these days it’s well known that go-kart racing gives valuable seat time. In my day there were no go-karts and no driver schools. However, we were lucky in that most races were one day, the tracks were not too far off and we just used our everyday street cars, put electric tape over the headlights, painted a number on the side using shoe whitener, and went racing!
      Today this is not possible and so the costs, even at a lower level, are very high. It also depends on what you wish to do – just race or with ambition to advance and become a pro. If you are completely dedicated, you can do worse than become an instructor at a school. Many past and present pro racers got their break through meeting wealthy clients who went on to help them. Good Luck!

  12. How would you recommend approaching a sponsor/partner to ask for funding and/or support?  - Justin Casey
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    • I’m not an expert on this as I never had to do it! I’m sure our esteemed Road Racing Drivers Club President, Bobby Rahal, is best equipped to answer this question.
      The best sponsorship-raiser in my day was a racer named Guy Edwards. He wrote a book on the subject and although it’s so long ago, many parts are relevant today. Its called: Sponsorship and the World of Motor Racing.

  13. Was Steve McQueen at the same level of talent and skill as the other professionals you teamed up with? - Anonymous
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    • Both Steve and Paul Newman were dedicated racers. I have no doubt that if they had been able to devote their time and lives to motor racing, they would have been as good as anyone.
      Fortunately for them, they chose a more lucrative career!
  14. How do you have to adapt your approach to racing when swapping single-seaters for sportscars?

    - Jason MacDonald
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    • In my day we drove everything we could simply to earn a living. Porsche 917s for $1,000 a race at Le Mans, Sebring and Daytona and $750 at all the others. F1 was $1,200 a race. So we quickly became adept at driving different cars with different layouts – whether that was right-hand drive, four or five-speed shift on the right, some with the shift on the left. Left-hand drive with both left and right shift levers. It would take me about five laps to switch from one to the other.

  15. What is your top tip for succeeding in endurance racing? - Ben Smith
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    • Well, to finish first, you first have to finish! To succeed in any form of racing you have to look at what the competition is, and choose the best car and team. Much of my success came from being with the best team in that form of racing, at that time.

      SAFEisFAST video: The Art of Endurance Driving
  16. You have won some very famous races - which one would you chose as your best moment in motor sport? - Rob Harrison
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    • It’s not always the most famous races that are your best. For example, winning the Targa Florio – 44 miles on one lap and over 700 corners per lap, was a famous win. I caught the local hero, Nino Vacarella on my first (of three) laps. Three times I tried to pass and each time, he was going to push me off the road in his big 5-litre Ferrari 512S weighing some 1,800 lbs (against my Porsche 908/03 at 1,100 lbs). So, I stayed behind for over 100 miles, closed right up at the pit stop and we passed him – in the pits! How glorious!
      Of the famous races, perhaps I’d choose Spa-Francorchamps in the 917K in 1970. Both Jo Siffert and I had tyres come off the rim in practice – there were no safety ledges or bolts in those days, centrifugal force simply pulled the centre of the tyre out and the bead away from the rim.
      Another great moment was at the Nurburgring in 1969, driving a factory 908/02. When I took over from Siffert, Pedro Rodriguez took over from Chris Amon in the factory Ferrari 312. The expectation was that Pedro would romp off into the distance, but I pulled out over one minute and we won.
      Winning the 2-litre championship in 1970 by 1 point over Lola, when I took the lead on the last corner of the last lap of a 500KM race was also special. As was finishing second to Mario Andretti at Mosport in a 1975 F5000 race where we lapped the field.  I gave it everything I had and finished up just half a second short.
  17. My question is, as a soon to be college student with almost no loans, but also a shoestring budget, should I focus on a series where I will have the most seat time, or rent a car, or wait until I can purchase my own car? - Connor Kennard
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    • Connor, that’s a difficult question. As mentioned earlier, karting would give you the best experience for the least money. Also, you would quickly find out if this is what you really want to do – and how much aptitude you have for racing.

      SAFEisFAST Video: Winning A Racing Scholarship
  18. What are the main challenges for a driver when it comes to finding the limit during night-time races? - Steve Jenkins
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    • Very often, mostly due to cooler air, you can go as fast or faster at night than in the daytime. In my day, there were no lights on the tracks and the headlamps weren’t all that good.
      So, during daytime you make a mental note of braking points – normally I don’t do this, simply braking when it feels like the right time!  But doing that means you know you can brake at the same place in the night, and still make it round the corner. As motor racing is very much a “seat of the pants” sport, you get a feeling of when the car is at, or approaching, the limit of adhesion.
  19. What do you make of the growing strength of the World Endurance Championship and does that give young drivers more career options? - Harry Thomas
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    • Yes indeed. In my opinion the growth of the World Endurance Championship and of the IMSA series in the United States is a very good thing. It gives the aspiring young driver far more possible ways of entering motor sport.
      To me, these sports car championships are far more “real” than F1 with its constant rule changes and huge costs. In 1970 when sports car racing was just as popular as F1, and as fast or faster in places, there was a strong rumour that Bernie Ecclestone was going to try to kill endurance racing, which to some degree he did. But now the wheel is turning.


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608 Just then, I saw Our Lady with the Infant Jesus, and the Holy Old Man [St. Joseph]

standing behind them. The most holy Mother said to me, Take My Dearest Treasure, and She handed me the Infant Jesus. When I took the Infant Jesus in my arms, the Mother of God and Saint Joseph disappeared. I was left alone with the Infant Jesus. 609 I said to Him, “I know that You are my Lord and Creator even though You are so tiny.” Jesus stretched His little arms out to me and looked at me with a smile. My spirit was filled with incomparable joy. Then, suddenly, Jesus disappeared, and it was time for Holy Communion. I went with the other sisters to the Holy Table, my soul deeply moved. After Holy Communion, (71 ) I heard these words in my soul: am in your heart, I whom you had in your arms. I then pleaded with Jesus for a certain soul [Father Sopocko], asking the Lord to grant him the grace to fight, and to take this trial from him. As you ask, so shall it be, but his merit will not be lessened. Joy reigned in my soul that God is so good and merciful; God grants everything that we ask of Him with trust.


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Psalm 64 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?6 They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.10 The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.

Psalm 65 1 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.3 Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:6 Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.


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Monday, October 17, 2011

Baseball team plays Dodgeball at West Mabee

When I reached the doors to the gym at the West Mabee Boys & Girls Club it seemed as if the room could hardly contain the shouts of pure, unbridled joy. And that was just from the grownups. The ORU Golden Eagles baseball team had come to play with the West Mabee kids and there was shouting, screaming and peals of laughter. The game was Dodgeball, but not your mother’s Dodgeball.

The 33 baseball players combined with 22 club kids to form two opposing teams. Then about 20 different colored balls were lined up in the middle of the gym, a whistle blew and it was mass mayhem as both teams rushed to grab a ball and throw it at someone. That’s all I can tell you about the rules. It did seem like one of those games where size didn’t matter, I decided, as one very little girl threw the ball at one very large baseball player. I don’t think her aim was intentional, but the guys in the stands roared with laughter as he winced in pain. I had not realized that ORU sends volunteers to West Mabee every Wednesday to help with their homework. The club’s program director Latrica Baldwin said it was the first time the baseball team had come to West Mabee and the kids loved it. If they had half as much fun as the adults, it was a great afternoon.

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