For a few wonderfully strange years in the early 1970s, Lafayette residents gathered to watch local “athletes” compete for trophies, cash and a chance to advance to one of California’s most famous sporting events. The athletes were frogs. From 1971 through 1974, Lafayette held its own frog-jumping contest, transforming part of the city’s annual community … The post Lafayette Once Had a Real-Life Frog Jumping Contest That Would Make Mark Twain Je…
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