Sports
Buster, the Roller-Skating Rooster
He ice-skated also!
Davenport Daily Times - Aug 20, 1952
Baltimore Sun - Oct 12, 1952
Newark Advocate - Aug 21, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 17, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Sports, 1950s
Indoor Fishing
Not a new idea.Source of 1931 article.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 01, 2018 -
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Category: Sports, Fish
Iver Johnson, the human cork
For 12 years, Johnson said, he practiced, risking his life time and again trying to “force my body into harmony with the water.”
Johnson had a dream... to achieve something entirely useless.
A couple of years back, I posted about another guy, Norris Kellam, who called himself the 'human cork'. Though Kellam simply floated. He didn't float vertically.
Nephi Times-News - Mar 21, 1957
Chicago Tribune - Apr 7, 1957
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 03, 2018 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Sports, 1950s
George Barris’s Bob Hope Golf Cart
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 23, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Motor Vehicles, Sports, Outsider Art, Surrealism, 1960s, Head
Unfair Falsies
From June 1970:
Baltimore Evening Sun - Jun 19, 1970
See Valerie Peat in competition:
Posted By: Alex - Wed Mar 21, 2018 -
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Category: Sports, 1970s
Where’s Huddles?
Sure, why not transplant THE FLINTSTONES into a contemporary NFL setting? That'll be a hit, for sure!
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 04, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Sports, Television, Cartoons, 1970s
Skiing Mt. Everest
May 6, 1970: Japanese extreme skier Yuichiro Miura became the first person to ski on Mt. Everest. And amazingly, he didn't die. The stunt was filmed and was the subject of a 1975 documentary, The Man Who Skied Down Everest. Check out the clip below.Miura later became the oldest person to reach the summit of Everest, climbing it at the age of 70 and again when he was 80.
Burlington Free Press - May 12, 1970
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 21, 2017 -
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Category: Sports, 1970s
Endurance Bowling
Back in 1930, George Kinder of Milwaukee set a record for endurance bowling. He bowled for 50 hours 20 mins, rolling 362 ½ games. He had to quit because "his thumb was badly split, blistered and torn, and he couldn't grasp the ball."
Courier News - Jan 13, 1930
41 years later, Richard Dewey of Kansas City set a new endurance record. He bowled for 98 hrs 45 mins, rolling 1220 games. But Dewey also had to quit because of injuries:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - May 26, 1971
More recently, in 2010, Stephen Shanabrook of Plano, Texas set a new record, bowling for 134 hrs 57 min. However, he completed only 643 games, which is only about half the number Dewey rolled in less time. Nevertheless, according to Guinness, Shanabrook is the current record holder.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 19, 2017 -
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Category: Sports, World Records
Psychic Baseball Game
No supernatural abilities actually required.
Original ad here.
Further information here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 10, 2017 -
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Category: Games, Sports, 1920s, 1930s
Hunting Licenses for the Blind
It sounds like it should be a joke, but apparently in the past various states have debated whether they should issue hunting licenses for the blind. And today some states appear to issue such licenses. For instance, on the website of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game a "Resident Hunting License for the Blind" is listed as costing $45.00.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Dec 2, 1953
I think the clipping below explains these licenses. They allow blind people to go out hunting with their friends. Someone else (who can see) has to do the actual shooting, but the blind person can claim one of the game animals as their own kill.
Tallahassee Democrat - Apr 15, 1959
A separate issue is whether a blind person can purchase a regular hunting license. I don't know what the current laws are, but in 1963 in Washington state there was nothing to prevent them from doing so, as demonstrated by the stunt below in which blind attorney Arnold Sadler purchased a hunting license for himself.
Staunton News Leader - Jan 31, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 04, 2017 -
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Category: Guns, Sports, Regulations, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical
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