John Phillips: On the Recently Departed Chris Economaki

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Chris Economaki had a reedy, squeaky voice—“a rabbit with laryngitis,” is how stock-car writer Tex Swiston once described it—that should have obviated any TV career. Fact is, Chris might more profitably have been a barker at Coney Island—he was, at heart, a racetrack promoter. Mind you, it could have been precisely that awful trebly honk, [...]

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