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Article: Foyt still a man to respect.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 8, 2001
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ For a kid who grew up in Indianapolis during the 1970s, even for a kid whose first love was the Indiana Pacers and whose passion was football, sports legends don't come any bigger than A.J. Foyt.
Since the death of stock-car driver Dale Earnhardt, there has been a lot of pontificating about who the greatest race-car driver of all time is.
It's A.J. Foyt. There's virtually no debate.
Foyt won in whatever type of car he chose to race. Of course, he owned Indy-car racing and my hometown's Indianapolis 500, winning that event four times. But he also won NASCAR's Daytona 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That's the Triple Crown of ...