Dartoid's Column 5-17-2010

Greetings!

It should come as no surprise that Patrick Chaplin’s more than decade-long research earned him the first and only Ph.D. “in darts” from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge in 2006 – and darts enthusiasts everywhere are in for an indulgence now that a popular treatment of Chaplin’s dissertation is available on the market.

Chaplin’s dissertation-turned-treatise, Darts in England, 1900-1939 – A Social History (Manchester University Press, 2009), is -

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#Darts from John Lowe on facebook

John Lowe For all of you who keep asking me about practise routines, how to get better, how to win tournaments, it's all in "The Art of Darts" it simple to understand, and it works, I know I wrote it, it is my way of throwing a dart, and competing, Merv King should read it, maybe he would not bottle out in the next final he reaches.

HOW TO MASTER THE SPORT OF DARTS

Patrick Chaplin, the Dr. of darts, has reviewed the second edition of "How To Master The Sport Of Darts" and has posted the author's comments on the review as well.
This is available at www.patrickchaplin.com click reviews.

HOW TO MASTER THE SPORT OF DARTS

by George Silberzahn

To darts players in the UK, George Silberzahn may not be well know, but in the USA he has carved out quite a reputation as the man whose mission in life is to teach everyone to play darts.

Born in Gibbstown, New Jersey in September 1938, George joined his first local darts league in 1962. It was an American-style league of which he became President in 1965.

Hitting a bullseye: ‘The Dart League King,’ by UI graduate Keith Lee Morris explores human drama in rural Idaho

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Morris will return to Moscow for a book reading at 11 a.m. Saturday at BookPeople at 521 S. Main St. in Moscow.

The book is available at most book stores on the Palouse and is one of Barnes & Nobles’ “Discover New Great Writers” selections. The characters in “The Dart League King” live in Garnet Lake and are hanging around a bar on a Thursday night.

“On this night, one character is playing for the dart championship title,” he said. “There is a lot of stuff going on.”

He said most of his writing is about small towns and the interesting characters who dwell in them. (full article)

Planet Darts - Bob Of All Trades...Master Of Darts!

Bob Of All Trades...Master Of Darts! IF a modern-day author were to look to write a second 'This Sporting Life' novel, they could do much worse than looking back over the career of Bob Anderson. The 59-year-old has enjoyed considerable success in three different sports since his days as a schoolboy javelin champion, and has even gained a single-figure golfing handicap in recent years.
Planet Darts - Bob Of All Trades...Master Of Darts!

BBC SPORT: Darts - Bobby George comp

Bobby George comp Bobby George The King of Bling We had hundreds of entries in our competition to win copies of Bobby George's autobiography Bobby Dazzler. The book tells the "rags to bling" story of the Eastender who left school barely able to read and write, picked up a set up darts for the first time aged 30 and within three years had won a world title.
BBC SPORT: Darts - Bobby George comp

"Published to coincide with the

2007 BDO World Professional Darts Championships

from 6th-14th January in Frimley Green

BOBBY DAZZLER
my story by Bobby George

After a tough childhood, helping his imposing dad in the garden, looking after his pigeons, Bobby George left school early barely able to read or write. A life in the building trade – digging the Victoria Line on the London underground and laying concrete and granite floors – or minding Essex pub doors in the post-Krays era seemed to beckon.

That is until, after a day’s fishing off southern Ireland in the summer of 1976, a game of pub darts got off the ground. By the end of the night Bobby had taken on and beaten the whole pub. He was a natural. He has never really looked back: three years later he won the News of the World Championship.
BOBBY DAZZLER - Published to coincide with the 2007 BDO World Professional Darts Championships: "