So this appears, on the face of it, to have nothing to do with "Hacker News". It is historical. It has to do with startups or wireless web applications. But I

So this appears, on the face of it, to have nothing to do with "Hacker News". It is historical. It has to do with startups or wireless web applications. But I learned something from it. The guidelines state that an appropriate article is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". And I found that this tale of how America's first "sports superstar" (as the article classifies him) was enabled by changes in technology (particularly the railroads), not just social changes, that this tale was somehow intriguing. Made me stop to think what kinds of social changes our current technological innovations may bring (are bringing) and where these will wind up. So, one up-vote from me.