In an era when sportswriters tagged competitors with colorful nicknames, William Lawrence Schindler earned a few — “Bronco Bill,” “Wild Bill” and after a tragic 1936 accident, “One-Legged” Bill Schindler.
Roger Rager, born in the sprint car racing hotbed of Lincoln, Neb., fittingly won his first race in a sprint car at Lincoln’s Jefferson County Speedway.
In the aftermath of World War II, there remained a group of survivors who eluded death on the battlefield, but whose exploits left them with an insatiable hunger for adrenalin-generating adventure.
