Bill Nack, who chronicled Secretariat, developed a love of horses while growing up in Skokie
"As far as gifts from your parents go, this was one for the ages.
In the early 1950s, Bill Nack’s parents gave him and his younger sister, Dee Consigny, a horse. Besides fulfilling a childhood dream, the gift helped spawn the career of one of America’s foremost sportswriters of the past half-century.
