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On second thought, he won't play the fool.
Sportswriters are beautiful, handsome, wise and often remember where they parked the car. Paul Reinhard is one such happy soul. For 40 years, he has worked for the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call. His newspaper's very name suggests it's time to fall out of bed, have a cup of coffee and do another day's good work.
So there he was, awake and at his desk in the Morning Call sports department. Awake and at the desk in the morning is half of a columnist's job. The other half is the actual act of typing. The second half had Reinhard stumped--until he noticed the calendar.
It was a Monday.
Better, it was March 31.
Best, the next day was April Fool's Day.
Suddenly aglow under the light bulb of an idea dancing above his head, Paul Reinhard turned to his typing machine. There he wrote a column on a surprising development in the life of Mario Andretti, the legendary race driver from Nazareth, a town 20 miles northeast of Allentown.
"Are you ready for this?" Reinhard wrote. "Mario is coming out of retirement to drive in the Indianapolis 500."