General DARTS HISTORY – GEORGE SILBERZAHN – FORTITUDE; HEART; OPPORTUNITY; DARTS. 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – FLIGHT COLLECTING 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – NINE-DARTERS 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 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 DARTS HISTORY – DARTS’ POET LAUREATE – NOEL WILLIAMSON 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 A SELECTION OF HIS POEMS 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…
General DARTS HISTORY – NOEL E. WILLIAMSON 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 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 DARTS HISTORY – SUSAN ZIMMER – ‘SHAKY. THE BOOK LADY 22 May 201917 Mar 2026 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… DARTS HISTORY – THE DARTS ‘YIPS’ – DARTITIS 21 May 201918 Mar 2026 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 condition as ‘a state…
Dr Patrick Chaplin 