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Obscure Sports Weekly: Roller Derby

6 November 2015
Jesse Lundervold
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Roller derby began as a spin-off of marathon events, walk-a-thons and dance-a-thons, popular in the 1930s. Leo A. Stelzer sponsored the first marathon skating session in…

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