Category Archives: Sports

1958 National Championship 20k Walk at Patterson Park

Posted on April 4, 2012 by atomictv

April 28th, 1958: Ron Laird, of the New York Pioneer Club, wins the National Championship 20k Walk in Baltimore by walking 13 laps around the perimeter of Patterson Park in tight boy-shorts. Since it was still the wholesome 1950s he … Continue reading →

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When the Colts left town: the night that lives on in infamy

Posted on March 30, 2012 by atomictv

By Kevin Cowherd (The Baltimore Sun, 3/29/2012) I was there that night. It was 28 years ago, in the snowy, pre-dawn darkness of March 29, that the Mayflower vans rumbled out of Owings Mills and the Baltimore Colts left for … Continue reading →

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Angler Catches State Record Blue Catfish In The Potomac River

Posted on March 28, 2012 by atomictv

(Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 3/12/2012) Shawn Wetzel, 27 of Orrtana, Pennsylvania, caught a whopping 80-pound, 12-ounce blue catfish on February 23 in the Potomac River near Fort Washington. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed that the blue … Continue reading →

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A Chowder Feast

Posted on March 27, 2012 by atomictv

(Baltimore Sun, 8/20/1842) A party of gentlemen left our city on Thursday morning at an early hour, for the shores of Back River, with the determination of having an old fashioned chowder dinner, of which so much has been said … Continue reading →

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