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
James Thurber. . . so he was a writer, then?
Thurberville was one of the three books I signed and sold at the Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster, Ohio, last weekend, and it sparked considerable conversation with browsing customers. “Thurberville?” a middle-aged man in an Under Armour sweatshirt asked. “Is that a real...
Fenlon changed city’s sports journalism
Dick Fenlon’s death won’t get the notice it deserves this week. That is both sad and understandable. Probably half of today’s working population have never read a newspaper and most of the others have moved on to faster, more exciting (if less reliable) forms of...
A picture is worth a thousand broken backs
Back in 2017, Columbus Dispatch librarian Julie Fulton approached the Columbus Historical Society to see if it would take hundreds of bound volumes of old Columbus newspapers that the Dispatch wanted out of its printing plant. The danger to the volumes, which took...