When the United States boycotted the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980, the man who cared deeply for public parks and recreation in Kansas City’s largest counties sprung into action. No, Leon Younger didn’t save the Games. Instead, he called several businesses and created what he called the Corporate Olympics, with Kansas City-area businesses entering employees… Read more »
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Sport: Horseshoes
Vicki Chapelle Winston
You can almost imagine the quaint rural setting: A dad who loves playing horseshoes teaches his daughter all about the sport, and the clang of horseshoes hitting stakes becomes their sound of summer. Naturally, Vicki Chapelle Winston enjoys telling this story. “He loved horseshoes,” Winston said of her dad. “The house where we lived in Portland,… Read more »