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
When Knight visited Woody
A lot has been written about Bob Knight since his death and it’s not surprising that many of them seem so widely different. Where you stood on him and with him mostly depends on whether you were a friend, a former teammate, one of his former players, a fan (of Indiana...
From rock star to obscurity, Franklinton’s massive boulder has had quite a life
When I was a boy, a large rock enjoyed a prominent place in my grandparents’ front yard. It lay next to the sidewalk that led to their farm house, a few feet from Hunter Road. Someone had painted it white, as if it needed it to stand out. It didn’t. It wasn’t huge,...
Big Bottom Massacre site: pretty, serene and a little unnerving
On my third trip to the site of the Big Bottom Massacre, I again saw no park visitors. To put this in baseball terms, I’m 0 for 3. It doesn't seem as much a slump as status quo. A guy did show up to cut the grass at one point, but he went about his task like a man who...