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Haslett man marks 25th anniversary of world Scrabble championship

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Scott Pohl
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WKAR
Peter Morris of Haslett won the first world Scrabble championship 25 years ago. The anniversary will be observed at Lansing City Hall Thursday night.

Peter Morris of Haslett is well known as a baseball historian, but he has another passion: Scrabble. This month marks the 25th anniversary of his victory in the first-ever world Scrabble championships. He talks with Current State’s Scott Pohl about the game he loves.

Baseball fans know Peter Morris of Haslett as one of the game’s great historians, but there’s another game he loves: Scrabble. In 1991, he won the first-ever world Scrabble championships. On Thursday, the silver anniversary of his win will be marked in Lansing.

Current State’s Scott Pohl talks with Peter Morris about his time as the greatest Scrabble player in the world. They also played a game of Scrabble in WKAR's Studio S.

Scott Pohl has maintained an on-call schedule reporting for WKAR following his retirement after 36 years on the air at the station.
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