Wednesday, May 23, 2018

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY- MAY 23

Brickyard Tradition

Winners Drink Milk

The tradition of the Indy 500 winner's drinking from a bottle of milk at Indy started when three-time Indy 500 winner Louis Meyer asked for a bottle of buttermilk following his second Indy 500 victory in 1933.

In 1945 Tony Hulman bought the Speedway and added the tradition of the bottle of milk as a permanent part of the victory ceremony.

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