years. These days, he rarely plays competitively, though Home Fresh still loves the game.

Despite his decline, Bill still smiles when recalling his victory on the very first Superman Saturday on October 26, 2002. That puts the club’s weekly league streak at over fifteen years, and almost 800 consecutive events in a row.

To put things in perspective, back in 2002, Champion plastic was a new thing. Young’s Run only had 12 holes (it’s an 18-hole course now), and a score of 33 could win the round. Flynn’s bag contained Cyclones, Comets, X-clones, Magnets, and a #2 Upshot.

In those days, players were loyal to one of two manufacturers. Most of the other manufacturers that are popular today did not even exist. The world distance record was established by throwing aHerbert Hoover (1874–1964) would have satisfied anyone who believed a businessman would make an ideal president. In this outstanding addition to the American President series, Bancroft Prize–winning historian Leuchtenburg (The FDR Years ) points out that while writers describe Hoover as a mining engineer, he was really a promoter and financier who traveled the world and made a fortune. He vaulted to fame after brilliantly organizing relief for the Belgian famine during WWI. Appointed secretary of commerce in 1920, he operated with a dictatorial manner that infuriated colleagues, but his dynamism and popularity made him a shoo-in for the Republican nomination in 1928. As president, his political ineptitude offended Congress and discouraged supporters even before the 1929 crash. Afterward, he backed imaginative programs to stimulate the economy but