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FALL 2009
VOLUME 7 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE: The Sporting Life

SUBSCRIBE NOW or ORDER THIS ISSUE BY MAIL ORDER ONLINE			The Whale That Got Away
			From Poor Kid to Featherweight Champ
			A Football Rivalry Still On After 134 Years
			Where to Find an Early Baseball Card Collection
			How ESPN Came to Bristol
			How ESPN Came to Bristol

On the cover: The Norwich Free Academy 1898 team. Courtesy of Norwich Free Academy.

Contents
pg 12 Whaler Mania How Connecticut won and lost its NHL team. By Brian Codagnone
pg 18 Girls Can Play, Too! Women’s Basketball in Connecticut From the Nutmeg Aggies to the UConn Huskies, Connecticut embraces women’s basketball. By Elizabeth Lewis
Pg 24 Major Taylor and William Fenn: The Fastest Men On Two Wheels When bicycle racing was the biggest sport in America. By Bill Pierce
pg 30 The Meriden Buzz Saw Kid Kaplan pulls himself up by his boxing gloves. By David Kluczwski
Departments
pg 9	Hog River Journal: Whalers Fans & Our New Name By Elizabeth J. Normen
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Whaler Mania. By Brian Codagnone
pg 18	Girls Can Play, Too! Women’s Basketball in Connecticut. By Elizabeth Lewis
pg 24	Major Taylor and William Fenn: The Fastest Men On Two Wheels. By Bill Pierce
pg 30	The Meriden Buzz Saw. By David Kluczwski
pg 36	Destination: Ingalls Rink and the Yale Bowl. By Patrick Pinnell
pg 38	re: Collections: The McCook Boys Collect Baseball Cards. By Beverly Lucas
pg 40	Shoebox Archives: A Family Affair: The Manchester Road Race. By Christopher Pagliuco
pg 42	Destination: The Nation’s Oldest High-School Football Rivalry. By Geoff Serra
pg 44	How ESPN Came to Bristol. By David Nagle
pg 46	Connecticut’s Lost Ski Areas. By Diane Pflugrad Foley
pg 51	Afterword