Interesting article but also a bar in New York also claimed to have created the brackets.
It was from one of those rec league sheets that Bob Stinson a man who grew up in the shadow of Churchill Downs and always enjoyed a small wager came up with an idea that seems so glaringly obvious now but qualified as an indelible stroke of genius for 1978.
“He looked at the brackets and said, ‘I can do this for college basketball and we can bet on it and the winner can take the jackpot,’ ” Debby Stinson remembers.
https://sports.yahoo.com/did-bob-stinson-create-the-first-march-madness-pool-222011733.html
It was from one of those rec league sheets that Bob Stinson a man who grew up in the shadow of Churchill Downs and always enjoyed a small wager came up with an idea that seems so glaringly obvious now but qualified as an indelible stroke of genius for 1978.
“He looked at the brackets and said, ‘I can do this for college basketball and we can bet on it and the winner can take the jackpot,’ ” Debby Stinson remembers.
https://sports.yahoo.com/did-bob-stinson-create-the-first-march-madness-pool-222011733.html
