No sleepless nights spent devouring entire text books so that ... Which is, take a bath.” Turns out there wasn’t any particular part that my dear mate Barney didn’t enjoy bathing.

Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of America’s Legendary Speed King, by William F. Nolan, hardcover, 232 pages, $32.50, published by Brown Fox Books, (800) 450-7949, www.brownfoxbooks.com ...