That Time America Fell In Love With Competitive Walking
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
While people often call baseball the "national pastime" of the United States, there was once another contender for this crown -- the sport known as pedestrianism, or competitive walking. It was exactly what it sounds like -- groups of people walking, often in a circle, while spectators gambled on the results. And, for a time, this sport captured the entire nation's attention. Join the guys as they take a stroll (get it?) down the historic lane of one of the country's strangest sports.
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| 2:18.5 | No, did you ever play sports as a kid? Yeah, I was not very good at it. I was in the outfield |
| 2:26.1 | in baseball. I think I played soccer for a couple of months or something. I was a very sluggish |
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