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
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...
Finding answers to Harley’s statue problem in a Rose Bowl press release
As chance would have it, a copy of the Rose Bowl press release that announced the erection of Archie Griffin’s statue in Pasadena and a duplicate outside Ohio Stadium in Columbus has come into my possession.I needed to write about that for a couple of reasons. First,...
Archie Griffin gets statue at ‘House that Harley Built’, so is one for Chic coming next?
When fans arrived at Ohio Stadium today for Ohio State’s football season opener against Akron, they were greeted by a statue of Archie Griffin. You’d have to be out of your mind to oppose a statue for Griffin, one of the great players in school history, the only...