Brenden ‘Butterbean’ Queen earning his way as NASCAR’s new ‘Cinderella Man’ [Video]

There are certain moments in the theater of sports that blur the line between fantasy and reality. And oftentimes, it is the everyman story — a common man seizing an unlikely chance and succeeding in epic fashion — that elicits the strongest feelings, most resonates with those who bear witness to it, and then finds a place in American sports mythology. Boxer James J. Braddock’s rise from a dock worker on social assistance to world heavyweight champion, for instance, so inspired the nation that he was immortalized in the American canon as the “Cinderella Man” — a story further popularized by the 2005 film of the same name.

What occurred last month at North Wilkesboro Speedway felt like something out of such a film: At the conclusion of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, the grandstands rose to their feet and a crowd gathered on pit road …