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~ by Boris Ladwig, photos by Tom Preston
Sometime in 2016, Hondo Thompson stepped into the Video Saloon in Bloomington to offer some advice to a friend of a friend. He learned about a dart club that was playing there, and that chance encounter rekindled his interest in the sport, which he hadn’ t played regularly for more than 30 years.
“ I never took it seriously until 2016,” he said.“ And then I hyper-focused and geeked out on it.”
Shortly after his stop in Bloomington, he approached the owners of the Muddy Boots / Pine Room Tavern in Nashville to ask if he could hang a dart board there.
The owners agreed, and what began with a single player has since then evolved, with a couple of location changes in between, into the Muddy Boots Dart Club, which has
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