TRD 6/19/10
Dry Heat Militia will be playing a thirty minute exhibition during half time!!

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Dry Heat Militia will be playing a thirty minute exhibition during half time!!

Support local derby!!
The Day the Skating Almost Stopped
Written By John Seylaz
Special thanks to Mark Olsen, Georgia Bogash and Billy BogashIt was approximately 11:00 in St. Louis on that March 24, 1937 morning. A group of people that skated for the infant of sports, Roller Derby climbed into the bus that was to take the group to Cincinnati for a two-week stop. The sport had been invented only a year and a half earlier by Leo Seltzer in Chicago. Its popularity had grown to make it a traveling show. On this morning, the 14 skaters and 9 other Derby personnel piled into the 2 year old Greyhound bus.
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