How Two Kentucky Farmers Became Kings Of Croquet, The Sport That Never Wanted Them
by Julian Smith from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4QQE0)
On a sunny September Sunday in 1982, Mark Burchfield, a 20-year-old tobacco farmer from rural Kentucky, stood in Manhattan's Central Park, getting ready to take the most important croquet shot of his life.