Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: It was around midnight on March 10th, 1879, and a crowd was gathering outside Madison Square Garden, back when it was called Gilmore’s Garden. And they were all there for an event, a kind of race. And in the days leading up to it, newspapers and magazines had been stirring up the excitement. So when the day finally arrived, people were ready. The race was set to begin at 1 a.m. in the morning, but the…
