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Miracle: Bobby Allison and the Saga of the Alabama Gang Review

I have been a Bobby Allison fan for more than 50 years as I saw him race in his very early years in South Florida, so I was very much looking forward to this book. Sadly the errors that are rampant throughout the book ruined the story. Other reviews here have noted some errors, but the number is truly staggering--and utterly inexplicable in this age of Google and instant info. Here are the errors I found:
Page 30:
Gil Hearn
Correct spelling is Hearne
Page 34:
He started thirty-ninth, and he finished thirty-ninth, still running at the end of the race.
He started thirty-first and finished thirty-sixth.
Page 40:
Deal Ford
Correct spelling is Deel Ford.
Page 66:
(James Hylton) led the 300-lap Islip race from lap 147 to lap 282.
Hylon led from 147 through 292.
Page 68:
a lap after Bobby passed Buddy Baker to take the lead in the race it blew up.
Allison never led a lap in the race--and neither did Buddy Baker.
Page 100:
Donnie entered two superspeedway races, finishing twenty-seventh at Rockingham and ninth, twenty-two laps behind winner Fred Lorenzen, at Charlotte.
Exactly the opposite, Donnie was ninth at Rockingham, twenty-seventh at Charlotte.
Page 102:
What made winning the World 600 even more remarkable was that he also entered the Indianapolis 500 the same weekend. (Donnie was the only driver ever to do that until 1993, when Jeff Gordon did it.)
Jeff Gordon has never raced in the Indianapolis 500.
Page 105:
What made the June 20 1971 Riverside race notable was that Bobby had arranged with Motorola to put a two-way radio in the car so that during the race he could talk directly with Eddie. It was the first time a driver didn't have to rely on a chalkboard, and it wasn't long before all the drivers were doing it.
Though Allison popularized the two-way radio, it was first used in 1952 by Al Stevens in a Modified/Sportsman race on the famed beach/road course.
Page 129:
Describing a test session in an Indy car at Ontario Speedway, one sentence begins "When he arrived at the Ontario track," followed by Allison saying "I arrived at Indy."
Page 130:
Later in the test at the Ontario track, "Bobby went out on the famed Indianapolis track."
Page 133:
Driver Art Pollard had gotten killed on the first day of practice at the Brickyard
Pollard was killed during the first day of qualifying on May 12, after more than a week of practice.
Page 140:
His Champ car team has won a hundred races with driver Gils deFerran
Penske Racing has won more than a hundred Indy-car races, but Gil deFerran won just seven of them for the team.
Page 148:
After Donnie finished fifth in the Firecracker 500
There has never been a Firecracker 500, it is the Firecracker 400
Page 160:
When Smokey Yunick had a fallout with the France family in 1976, Smokey decided to quit NASCAR and run at Indianapolis.
The fallout was in 1970. Yunick's cars raced at Indianapolis from 1958 to 1975, and one driven by Jim Rathmann won in 1960.
Page 164: Eddie Allison was watching the race on television.
Page 166: I was watching TV and Dave Despain was interviewing Ryan Newman
It's doubtful Dave Despain was interviewing Ryan Newman on race day. Newman was not yet two years old at the time.
Page 191:
Bobby and Gary Nelson put the Monte Carlo on the wind tunnel skid, and after they cranked the fan up, the wind started to blow the car off the skid pad. It was clear to everyone that the Buick was not going to be able to perform.
Of course Monte Carlo is a Chevrolet model.
Page 193:
On May 17 at Dover
The race was May 15
Page 194:
At Richmond, Waltrip was second, Bobby third.
It was at Long Pond. Tim Richmond won the race.
At Richmond, Bobby won his second race in a row. Ricky Rudd was second,
Waltrip fourth.
Waltrip was third.
Page 202:
Terry Labonte didn't win a single race but became the new racing champion.
That season Labonte won on June 3, 1984 at Riverside and August 25, 1984 at Bristol.
Page 204:
After two top ten finishers at Pocono and Michigan, the team went to Daytona for the Firecracker 500.
There has never been a Firecracker 500, it is the Firecracker 400
Page 205:
A couple of other things happened in the Firecracker 500
There has never been a Firecracker 500, it is the Firecracker 400
Page 206:
Bobby finished twenty-first.
He finished twenty-seventh.
Page 223:
Neil Bonnett had raced in 1972 but it took another three years for him to take a crack at Grand National racing.
Bonnett's first season was 1974, when he appeared in two races.
Page 230:
Hillin himself had begun his driving career in 1982 at age sixteen
Bobby Hillin holds the NASCAR record as young competitor at 17, just 48 days shy of his eighteenth birthday.
Page 257:
"Because of Butch Lynley."
Correct spelling is Lindley
Page 280:
Ken Squire
Correct spelling is Ken Squier
Page 282:
"I passed him clean on the outfield"
Since they weren't racing in a baseball stadium, I'm pretty sure he was on the outside
Page 304:
Robert Yates's and McReynolds s scenario, which had the blessing of NASCAR...
(next paragraph) Yates and McReynolds objected.
It was Yates' and McReynolds' scenario--but they objected?
Page 313:
He kicked a record 89 PATs in a row, a Memphis State record.
Joe Allison kicked a then-record 81 PATs in a row

Page 328:
Red, whose whole life revolved around arcing, had traveled to Hueytown to race against Bobby and Donnie thirty years earlier and had become family.
As has been well-documented in the preceding 328 pages, the Allisons knew Farmer from their days in South Florida where he had mentored both Donnie and Bobby.
Page 333:
Just after seven o'clock on the morning of July 12, 1993, Davy was pronounced dead.
Allison died on July 13, the day after the accident.
Page 355:
Bonnett first announced his return to racing at a press conference at Talladega the morning of July 13, 1993. Later that afternoon, Davey Allison crashed his jet helicopter at the track and died.
Allison crashed on July 12.
Page 360:
On Monday, February 13, 1994
Monday was February 14, 1994
Page 369:
When the team arrived for the inaugural NASCAR Indianapolis 500
The NASCAR race at Indianapolis is the Brickyard 400
In addition, there is a great deal of careless editing--if indeed there is ANY editing.

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