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Our Greatest Letterman: UT Unveils Statue Honoring Jim Haslam
As many great sport stories begin, a football coach changed everything for a young kid. The Haslam story is no different. In 1958, a 27-year-old University of Tennessee college graduate (and former college football captain) walked into a run-down four-pump gas station in Gate City, Virginia, and bought it for $6,000. He had no idea he was laying the first brick of what would become one of the largest privately held companies in America. His name was James Arthur Haslam II. B

Ellie Williamson
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