A.J. Baime

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Contributor and Author at Freelance

New York Times Best Selling author of the new book WHITE LIES: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF WALTER F. WHITE AND AMERICA'S DARKEST SECRET

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Great aviaion books

6 days ago | aopa.org | Julie Summers Walker |Antoine de Saint-Exupery |A.J. Baime |Anne Millbrooke

Aviation novels and instructional books are a great part of your flying life—when you can’t be in the air, you can be in your reading chair living vicariously through the exploits of others or learning from their experiences and expertise. We asked our AOPA pilots for their favorite books, and many cited the same works. Ernest K. Gann’s Fate Is the Hunter was a top pick.
Formula 1’s Trickiest Chicane Makes Even World Champs Look Like Chumps

1 week ago | roadandtrack.com | A.J. Baime

The Wall of Champions got its name after three world champs hit it during the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix. Pictured: Michael Schumacher sprinting from his wrecked Ferrari. “Uh—I lost control, and the vehicle hit the wall. There’s nothing more to it than that.” How’s that for an understatement? The speaker was Damon Hill, the year 1999, and the wall none other than the Wall of Champions. Only it wasn’t called that yet.
BMW X7 M60i xDrive

1 month ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | A.J. Baime

Sports cars are great, but the compromises that make them special also mean owners often grow out of them. Life's changing circumstances mean many enthusiasts find themselves needing a vehicle to accommodate a growing family, combining five (or more) seats with space to haul nonhuman cargo as well. But they also want something that is still fun to drive—not a minivan with barf bags tucked into its seat pockets.
Formula 1's Greatest Same-Team Rivalries

1 month ago | ca.finance.yahoo.com | A.J. Baime

You know a rivalry is hot when one guy throws down on the other’s family. After two years of animosity, during which each racer traded jabs on track and in the press, Nelson Piquet went nuclear in a 1988 interview, saying, “[Nigel] Mansell is argumentative, he’s rude, and he’s got a really ugly wife.” These old friends were once karting teammates, but when they both ended up at Mercedes with a dominant car, things went sour—fast.
Ford GT40 Celebrates a Monumental Anniversary

1 month ago | msn.com | A.J. Baime

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Ford GT40 Celebrates a Monumental Anniversary

1 month ago | roadandtrack.com | A.J. Baime

"I got drunker than shit."Those immortal words were imparted to me by the late Carroll Shelby when I asked him about the victory party after the Daytona Continental 2000 Kilometer sports-car race, which was 60 years ago, on February 28, 1965. It was a historic night: the first victory for the Ford GT40, the Ford that beat Ferrari. It was the debut of the Shelby American Ford racing team. It was also the first time an American car had won a sanctioned international race in more than 40 years.
Why Is NASCAR the Only Big Racing Series That Allows Real Fisticuffs?

1 month ago | autos.yahoo.com | A.J. Baime

The Racing World Needs More Fights illustration by tim mcdonagh“And there’s a fight!”As most fans know, those four words helped put NASCAR on the map. CBS commentator Ken Squier was calling the action on the 1979 Daytona 500 television broadcast when Cale Yarborough and the Allison brothers clashed. The brawl played out on live TV for 23 seconds. This story originally appeared in Volume 27 of Road & Track. “Those 23 seconds changed the course of our history.
He’s Driven His Vintage Volvo From One Side of North America to the Other

2 months ago | wsj.com | A.J. Baime

By | Photos by Kaylin Webster for WSJ Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 02:43This article is in your queue. Joe Lazenby, 78, who lives in Harrisburg, Pa., and owns Susquehanna Spares, a company that specializes in vintage Volvo parts, on his 1963 Volvo PV544, as told to A.J. Baime. I was always interested in old cars, and while I was a teacher and then a guidance counselor for about 30 years, I was always involved in old cars.
A Bank Parking Spot

2 months ago | msn.com | A.J. Baime

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His Go-To Place for Buying Vintage Buicks: A Bank Parking Spot

2 months ago | wsj.com | A.J. Baime |Kelsey McClellan

By | Photographs and video by Kelsey McClellan for WSJ Your browser does not support the audio tag. 00:00 / 02:12This article is in your queue. David Lewin, 61, general manager of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco hotel, on his 1965 Buicks, as told to A.J. Baime. Growing up in San Francisco, my dad had a friend who owned a Buick dealership, so every year we would get two new Buicks. My first car was a 1973 Buick Electra 225.