By Bob Hunter
Road to Wapatomica
Sports Journalist and Author
Bob Hunter
Bob Hunter is the author of eleven books including Players, Teams and Stadium Ghosts, Bob Hunter on Sports, a collection of some of his columns from his more than 40 years at the Columbus Dispatch.
Bob’s Other Books
Players, Teams and Stadium Ghosts
A Hall of Fame collection of Bob’s best writing from the Columbus Dispatch.
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus
Finding the past in the present in Ohio’s capital city
Saint Woody
The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
Thurberville
James Thurber’s Columbus was not today’s Columbus—or even yesterday’s
Bob’s Latest Blog Entries
Viewing Colosseum, Ephesus Theatre and Ohio Stadium through a 2000-year time warp
After two brief stops in the ancient world dazzled me, a peculiar thought lodged in my mind. Rome and the remains of the ancient Greek (now Turkish) city of Ephesus have incredible ruins of massive stadiums/theaters that have survived in recognizable forms. In some...
Anybody who has ever been around Pete Rose has a story, so here’s one of mine
Anybody who has spent any time around Pete Rose has story they can tell you. He produced stories the way he produced hits. He is baseball’s all-time hits leader with 4,256. Memories of Pete cannot be so easily quantified, but there might be million of them. He was a...
The perils of publishing: Trying to sell books from an ‘alcove’ in the spitting rain
I sold one book at the Cambridge (Ohio) Main Street Fall Festival today.This might not seem like much to a person who doesn’t write books, but given the circumstances, it actually was quite impressive.Let me to tell you a little story about some of the perils of...