![]() He kept their photos on opposite walls of his bedroom, in memory of their showdown in the International Amphitheatre in December of that year. William began riding in horse shows and spent his teenage years with gaited saddle horses, including Wing Commander and Bo Jangles. In 1955, they got their own charger, a parade horse with a masking black head atop a pure white body, named The Bandit by Dee. ![]() As children, William and his sister, Dee, mucked the stables and groomed the neighbors' horses in nearby Morton Grove. His family moved to the village of Skokie, in 1951. ![]() William Nack was born in Chicago, Illinois. He also served as an adviser on the made-for-TV-movie Ruffian (2007) and the Disney feature Secretariat (2010). in 2001, Nack freelanced for numerous publications, including GQ and. He wrote about sports, politics and the environment at Newsday for 11 years before joining the staff of Sports Illustrated in 1978 as an investigative reporter and general feature writer. William Louis Nack (Febru– April 13, 2018) was an American journalist and author. My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, and the Sporting Life (2004), ![]() ![]() Secretariat: The Making of a Champion (1975), ![]()
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