General Fortitude; Heart; Opportunity; Darts 22 May 201918 Jul 2019 George Silberzahn on his 70th birthday’ (Photo: Sandie Silberzahn) Sport offers unique opportunities for an individual to experience the “thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” even when the…
Darts History… Flight Collecting 22 May 201928 Aug 2019 CALLING ALL BELOPTEROPHILISTS In 1985, in one of my very early attempts to trace the real history of the game of darts, I sent a questionnaire to every single brewer…
Darts History… NINE-DARTERS 22 May 201911 Dec 2021 Who Threw The Very First Nine-Darter? I receive a good number of darts history questions via my website, but one I received in February 2003 from a dart fan in…
General NOEL WILLIAMSON’S POEMS 22 May 201930 Oct 2019 A SELECTION Noel was very keen to pass on his skills as a dart player both as a coach and a poet. Here is an early 1970s poem about the…
General NOEL E. WILLIAMSON 22 May 201927 Oct 2019 The Poet Laureate of Darts During the 1960s, when the world’s attention was yet to be turned to darts in a big way and Eric Bristow was eleven years old,…
General Susan Zimmer – ‘Shaky The Book Lady’ 22 May 201918 Jul 2019 In all realms of all sports, leisure and entertainment there are those fans who collect autographs of the top stars. Darts is no exception but, as I found out in…
General… DARTITIS 21 May 201915 Nov 2019 THE DART PLAYERS' 'YIPS' In 2007, thanks to the efforts of David King (of Darts501.com) the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) included the word ‘dartitis’ for the first time, defining the…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 