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Article: Glenn Remick; darts enthusiast boosted game nationally; at 58
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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In 2002, at his induction to the National Darts Hall of Fame in
Clarksburg, W.Va., Glenn W. Remick reflected upon his long
affiliation with the game, from his teenage years as a dart player
in various pubs to his founding of the St. Louis-based American
Darters Association in 1990.
"It's been a wonderful career, one I wouldn't trade with anyone.
It doesn't seem possible I've been full time in darts for 25 years.
Darters are the best people in the world," said the St. Johnsbury,
Vt., native, "and it is because of them I continued my career in
darts."
Mr. Remick, who opened the 301 Dart Shop in Holyoke in 1977 and
became the founding president of the Western Massachusetts Darting
Association ...