Ex-Indy 500 winner Jim Rathmann dies

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    Jim Rathmann won seven times on auto racing's biggest stages.

    An elusive win at Indianapolis in the historic 1960 race finally turned him into a star.

    Son Jimmy Rathmann said in an e-mail message to Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials that his father died Wednesday at a hospice facility in Melbourne, nine days after having a seizure at his home. He was 83.

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