FIRST TIME I MET CALE YARBOROUGH
ryan
Sunday July 20 2008, 3:59 PM
THE FIRST RACE I EVER WENT TO . WAS A RACE AT A DIRT TRACK IS SUMPTER SC. MY DAD WAS A RACE FAN BUT WAS ALSO A FREIND OF CALE. I MAY HAVE BEEN 10 YEARS OLD AND WHILE THE RACE WAS GOING ON CALE GOT IN A WRECK, WHEN HIS CAR CAME TO A STOP CALE CLIMBED THE FENCE AND JUST SAT WITH ME AND DAD. THEIR WERE MANY OF CALES FREINDS IN ATTENDANCE HE SAT BESIDE ME AND JUST STARTED TALKING AND I WAS LOOKING AT HIS HELMENT. HE PUT IT ON MY HEAD ON SAID YOU KEEP I WAS SO EXCITED TO GET HIS HELMENT. I GUESS PEOPLE KNEW HOW BIG CALE WOULD GET BECAUSE WHILE ME AND DAD WERE WATCHING THE RACE SOMEONE STOLE THE HELMENT FROM UNDER OUR SEAT. TO ME IF NOT FOR CALE AND THE EARLY DRIVERS NASCAR WOULD HAVE NEVER MADE IT. YOU ASK IF TODAYS DRIVERS COULD OUT RUN CALE MY ANWSER IS THEY COULD NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO CALES--------RYAN LOGAN
Jay Sellers
@jay-sellers   16 years ago
Good story, As you know Cale is my favorite too.I wish you still had that helmet.If I remember correctly you also had a run-in with Micky Mantle and he signed a baseball for you.