902 East Garfield Drive (Indianapolis, Indiana)

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Home of Erwin "Cannonball" Baker (1882-1960), racer and promoter. He won the very first race ever held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909, but is best known as a record-setting "point-to-point" racer. In 1933 he drove from New York to Los Angeles in 53 hours 30 minutes, a record that stood until 1971 during the "Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash", or "Cannonball Run". Many subsequent races, as well as movies of varying quality, have been made in Baker's honor.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Baker
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Coordinates:   39°44'1"N   86°8'39"W
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