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Strange as it sounds, during the 1870s and 1880s, America's most popular spectator sport was not baseball, football, or horseracing it was competitive walking. Inside sold-out arenas, competitors walked around dirt tracks almost nonstop for six straight days (never on Sunday), risking their health and sanity to see who could walk the farthest more than 500 miles. These walking matches were as talked about as the weather, the details reported in newspapers...
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