Oak Brook Polo Club 100th Anniversary Podcast with Guest Mike Dailey

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You are listening to a special edition of Outside The Boards podcast celebrating the Oak Brook Polo Club’s 100th Anniversary.

Founded in 1922 by legendary businessman, Paul Butler, the Oak Brook Polo Club is an American Polo treasure and one of the oldest polo clubs in the United States. It was once the sport's epicenter for elite professional polo and served as home to the U.S. Open Polo Championship for twenty-four straight seasons and other prestigious international and national polo tournaments.

In 2022, the Oak Brook Polo Club will be celebrating its 100th anniversary and will be returning to its original and masterpiece field, the Cecil Smith Field.

To honor this historic occasion, the Oak Brook Polo Club has invited Club friends and family to share stories and their most fondest memories of visiting and playing at Oak Brook. Join as we take listeners down memory lane with some of the sport’s household names while they share their experiences at Oak Brook and the impact the Club and its founder’s have played on their lives. Welcome to this Outside The Boards special podcast edition, with your host Danny O’Leary.

The guest on this podcast episode is Mike Dailey, who was a member of Michael Butler’s pool house gang along with Joel Baker and Stuart MacKenzie if you remember from Episode #2. Mike was born and raised in Hawaii. His father helped revive the sport of polo post WWII in WyKiKi. The later part of the 60’s, Mike went Culver Academies in Indiana. Mike’s father, originally from Aurora, Illinois was a member of the Black Horse Troop alongside Paul Butler which was his exposure to the sport and where he got started. Mike watched polo at Oak Brook as a kid when his father was a USPA Board Member. Mike grew up playing in Hawaii and got his big polo break when Michael asked Mike to played on his team in England in the early 70’s. Butler & Dailey would become great friends traveling and playing together. Mike is a great friend of the Oak Brook Polo Club and Butler Family and close friend to Michael Butler. We are thrilled have him on this special podcast.
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