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She then won the Tennessee state championship in her rookie year [1] and is the first Tennessean to win the Women's World Horseshoe Tournament. [4] In 2009, she was inducted into the NHPA Hall of Fame. [3] [5] She had won five Women's National Horseshoe Pitchers Association World Tournaments by 2012 and had won 10 NHPA World Tournaments by 2021 ...
Alan Francis is a horseshoes pitcher from Defiance, Ohio. He has won the World Horseshoe Championship 28 times, in 1989, 1993, 1995–1999, 2001, 2003–2010, 2012–2019 and 2021-2024. That is the most anyone has won it (2nd place belongs to Ted Allen who has won 10).
Walter Ray Williams Jr. (born October 6, 1959) is an American professional bowler and competitive horseshoes pitcher. He currently holds the record for all-time standard PBA Tour career titles (47), and total PBA earnings (over $5 million through 2022). [2]
Horseshoe pitching is a quirky but prestigious addition to a calendar of sports events that attract visitors to Tri-Cities. This weekend’s Apollo Columbia Cup hydroplane races is just one example.
Horseshoe pitching contest at the annual field day of the FSA farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Horseshoes is a lawn game played between two people (or two teams of two people) using four horseshoes and two throwing targets (stakes) set in a lawn or sandbox area. The game is played by the players alternating turns tossing horseshoes at ...
The diamond was discovered by William P. “Punch” Jones and his father, Grover C. Jones, Sr. while pitching horseshoes in April 1928. Believed to be simply a piece of shiny quartz common to the area, the stone was kept in a wooden cigar box inside a tool shed for fourteen years throughout the Great Depression.
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The park is home to the Quail Ridge Horseshoe Club and the National Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame and Museum. [4] The Hall of Fame and Museum moved to the park from its previous home in Joelton, Tennessee, in 2006. It has exhibits relating to the history of the game as well as 32 indoor and outdoor horseshoe pitching courts. [5] [6]