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Harvey Pack
Harvey Pack, who became an unlikely broadcasting pioneer by delivering a blend of insightful, irreverent and heartfelt commentary on horse racing as host of the country's first nightly racing replay show, died Tuesday in New York City. He was 94.
For more than three decades starting in the mid-1970s, Pack was one of the best-known personalities in New York racing
, celebrated as the voice of the common fan, the $2 bettor. At NYRA, Pack created and hosted racing replay shows like “Thoroughbred Action” and “Inside Racing,” sprinkling the replays of races with his analysis, predictions and lively tales about the Runyonesque characters who frequented Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack and Saratoga Race Course.
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Updated: July 6, 2021 at 9:35 pm
T. D. Thornton
Harvey Pack, the engagingly witty curmudgeon who entertained and informed decades of racetrack fans in New York and beyond as a popular radio, television and handicapping seminar host, has died at 94.
Pack's death was confirmed by the New York Racing Association (NYRA), which employed him from 1974 to 1998.
Daily Racing Form reported the cause was complications from cancer.
Pack made a lasting impression as a self-deprecating “wiseguy's wiseguy” who passionately advocated for the underdog while never running out of strange-but-true racetrack tales and anecdotes, many of which involved the seemingly universal racetrack desire to gain an edge and cash big (although Pack himself rarely bet more than $100 a race, and often far less than that).
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Jeff Danziger has been an award-winning independent newspaper cartoonist for nearly 25 years. He now works with the Washington Post Writers Group.
After being drafted, he served in the Army from 1968 to 1971 and was sent to Vietnam in 1970. “Lieutenant Dangerous” is his memoir about that time. The book’s title plays on the Vietnamese’s attempts to pronounce his name.
As with his cartooning, Danziger pulls no punches with his description of his time in the service and Vietnam.
“I knew that I didn’t want to go, although I had no strong objection to other people going. I knew nothing about the army. I knew nothing about the army. I knew nothing about the history of Indochina. And I had no idea where or what Vietnam was. A survey … revealed that a scant 6 percent of Americans could find Vietnam on the map, and most of those did so by accident.”
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