By Bob Hunter

Road to Wapatomica

Looking for history on our streets and street corners, in our parks and even in our backyards, Bob Hunter sets out on a journey across the Midwest in search of memorable moments from the days of the Old Northwest.

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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.

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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

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Bob’s Latest Blog Entries

On the trail of Mark Twain and ‘our friends the Bermudians’

Jun 5, 2024

Mark Twain visited Bermuda on the wooden steamer SS Quaker City in 1867 with 73 other travelers. It was at the end of a five-month cruise to Europe and the Holy Land. A San Francisco newspaper furnished his ticket in return for a regular series of travel stories about...

Hmmm. . . maybe there really WERE Michigan spies watching OSU practice from Fawcett Center

Nov 22, 2023

I used to think that Woody Hayes was delusional when he saw Michigan spies in the windows of the Fawcett Center, which has a nice view across Olentangy River Road of the Ohio State football practice fields. Spies? Really? I know OSU had the fences surrounding the...

An evening on Isle of Bute: Ohio State fans aren’t really all that bad

Nov 13, 2023

For today’s discourse on Ohio State football perspective, I take you to the little Isle of Bute, a choppy, 30-minute ferry ride west from Scotland’s mainland in the Firth of Clyde. First, let's take on the obvious questions: What was I doing on Bute, which doesn't...