Ed Otto
Subtitle: NASCAR's silent partner
By: Edgar Otto and Joann Biondi.
Contributors: Biondi, Joann.
Publisher: Coastal 181
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newburyport, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780978926144
Subjects: Otto, Ed.; France, Bill.; NASCAR (Association) -- History.; Sports promoters -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography.; Stock car racing -- United States -- History.; Automobile racing drivers -- United States -- Interviews.
Genres: Biography.; Interviews.
Description: The story of car racing promoter, Ed Otto, who helped transform a scrappy group of guys from 1949 to 1963 into the most successful racing organization in the world, NASCAR.
Table of contents: title: I: The story; title: An honest swindler; title: The cigar smoking boy promoter; title: A Yankee sport; title: Racing ahead; title: NASCAR comes knocking; title: Putting the National in NASCAR; title: NASCAR V.P.; title: Otto's gotta go; title: II: The interviews; title: The drivers; title: Richard Petty; title: Jim Reed; title: Lloyd Moore; title: Speedy Spiers; title: Jay Signore; title: Wayne Cameron; title: Pee Wee Pobletts; title: Mel Larson; title: "Tiger" Tom Pistone; title: Jim Bray; title: Bill Claren; title: Pete Frazee; title: Frankie Schneider; title: Rex White; title: Frank Mundy; title: Everett "Cotton" Owens; title: Susan Boudinot; title: Bill Wimble; title: Dutch Hoag; title: Ralph Liguori; title: Ernie Gahan; title: Junior Johnson; title: Hershel McGriff; title: Bob Malzahn; title: Frances Flock; title: The promoters, track owners, and car owners; title: Humpy Wheeler; title: Dr. Joe Mattioli; title: Hilly Rife; title: Dell Spencer; title: Junie Donlavey; title: Bill Smyth; title: Russ Conway; title: Linda Vaughn; title: W. Jay Milligan; title: James Foster; title: Tim Sullivan; title: Benny Corbin; title: George Hamid II; title: Richard Waterman; title: Bob Bartel; title: Michael Kazin; title: Hal Hamrick; title: The scribes; title: Chris Economaki; title: Bob Moore; title: Earl Krause; title: Neal Thompson; title: Pete Golenbock; title: Brock Yates; title: Bob Fendell; title: Ed Hinton.